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
15708
Building Number
13
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/02/1995
Date of Amendment
22/02/1995
Name of Property
The Gate House (also known as Park / Gate Lodge)
Address
13 Park Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Ruabon
Town
Locality
Ruabon
Easting
330374
Northing
343708
Street Side
S
Location
Situated at the east end of Park Street adjacent to the RuabonGates.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Former lodge relating to the Ruabon gates to the Wynnstay estate, probably erected in the earlier C19 as part of the estate development on Park Street.
Exterior
2-storey. Roughly coursed rubble with dressed stone quoins, hipped slate roof with octagonal stone chimney, 2-unit plan. Off-centre entrance with a stone canopy, narrow window to the right and a window to the left with a hoodmould. Upper floor window has restored hoodmould. Left hand return has windows with hoodmoulds, later extension to this side and to the rear.
Interior
2-unit, beams have been exposed in some rooms.
Reason for designation
Listed as an earlier C19 lodge, part of an important group of buildings on Park Street, and for historical associations with the Wynnstay Estate.
Group value with neighbouring buildings on Park Street.
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