Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
1553
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
07/06/1963
Date of Amendment
12/09/1996
Name of Property
Llwyn Onn Hall Hotel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Abenbury
Town
Locality
Llwyn Onn
Easting
335878
Northing
349371
Street Side
E
Location
Llwyn Onn Hall Hotel is reached via a private track from the east side of Cefn Road at Pentre Gwyn opposite the junction with Abenbury Road. It has a south-east aspect and is sited in its own grounds elevated above the road on the Cefn.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Llwyn Onn Hall was until recently the home of the chief family of Wrexham, the Jones's, later the Jones-Parry's, who claimed descent from Tudor Trefor. John Norden's survey of the lordship of Bromfield and Yale of 1620 records Roger Jones as holding "one capital messuage, called llwyn onn" and by 1724 Rate Books record the existence of "New Llwyn Onn," presumably to distinguish it from the present house which can therefore be dated to at least the early part of the C18 although the fabric suggests a building of the C17, though not necessarily that recorded by Norden. The Hall was turned into a Hotel in 1986 with the addition of a managers house, and some internal alterations.
Exterior
Late C17/early C18 gentry house of cement rendered brick built on a double-pile plan under a slate roof. Three storeys with twelve pane near-flush sash windows to ground under enclosed loggia, and first storeys, six, or nine, pane to the second storey. To the west elevation are three pointed gable ends with stone kneelers to north and south and an enclosed porch with wooden Doric columns surmounted by a deeply moulded entablature. To the south elevation is a recently enclosed loggia formed of seven wooden Doric columns with deeply moulded entablature. To the east a two storey, hexagonal projection of the C19 extends the current dining room and this elevation also contains two painted blind windows. Rear service wing to the north.
Interior
Entrance hall leads to a fine full height closed-string wooden staircase with turned balusters, moulded rail, and square newel posts. The staircase wall has contemporary wood panelling to dado height. Dining room retains decorative plaster work to ceiling of acanthus and vine design. Bar retains full height wood panelling including moulded archivolt to large open fireplace. The Jones-Parry room retains a C19 fire-surround.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as small country house of C17/C18 origin that retains historic character.
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