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
15748
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/02/1995
Date of Amendment
22/02/1995
Name of Property
Sluice Outlet
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Ruabon
Town
Locality
Wynnstay
Easting
330418
Northing
343111
Street Side
Location
Remotely sited within Wynnstay Park; in Bathground Wood 50m to the west of the Cascade.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
Part of a major programme of works undertaken by Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th bt., to the park and garden between 1768 and 1789. An ambitious scheme for a lake and cascade was drawn up by Lancelot `Capability' Brown. Following Brown's death the scheme was executed, possibly in altered form, by John Evans. The sluice outlet is part of the scheme for the management of the lake's water level.
Exterior
Dressed stone outlet set into the ground. Round arch rises from imposts. Entrance leads to barrel vaulted tunnel of brick and stone construction.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as part of an important water garden scheme designed by Brown.
Group value with the other garden structures relating to this important period of improvements to the park and gardens at Wynnstay.
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