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
15745
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/02/1995
Date of Amendment
22/02/1995
Name of Property
Boat House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Ruabon
Town
Locality
Wynnstay
Easting
330864
Northing
343116
Street Side
Location
Situated close to the head of the lake 500m NW of Wynnstay Hall, reached from a track running W from the private road to the Hall.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Part of the major programme of works undertaken by Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th bt., to the park and garden between 1768 and 1789. Rustic boat house thought to have been designed by the landscaper Richard Woods and very similar to one he designed at Cusworth Hall in Yorkshire.
Exterior
'Rustic' arched double boat house. The two water level berths consist of red brick barrel vaults faced with massive sandstone blocks formed to look like jagged rocks. The superstructure is set into the bank at the head of the lake.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of a rustic/picturesque garden feature.
Group value with Wynnstay Hall and the other listed garden structures relating to this important period of improvements to the park and garden.
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