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
16453
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/10/1995
Date of Amendment
26/10/1995
Name of Property
Bath House in Plas Power Park
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Coedpoeth
Town
Locality
Bersham
Easting
329880
Northing
349929
Street Side
Location
In woodland immediately S of the stables in Plas Power Park.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Plas Power was completely remodelled by John Gibson, architect, for Thomas Lloyd Fitzhugh in 1858, and many ancillary buildings in the park were remodelled or newly built at that time. It is likely that the Bath House is contemporary. The building is said to have been used as a shower house in association with the adjacent hunting stables, but may have been built as a well house.
Exterior
Small circular structure; coursed and squared stone with shallow domed roof recessed behind rusticated embattled parapet. Ogee headed doorway facing S, with cast-iron barred gate, and segmentally arched window towards E.
Interior
The building is lined with quartzite in the manner of agrotto. It contains a cast-iron pump.
Reason for designation
Listed as a rare example of an architecturally conceived well-house, which has group value with other structures in the park at Plas Power.
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