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
16967
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
09/06/1952  
Date of Amendment
17/07/1996  
Name of Property
2 Holt Hall (including the Peking Garden)  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Wrexham  
Community
Holt  
Town
 
Locality
Holt  
Easting
340983  
Northing
353844  
Street Side
W  
Location
Situated on the W side of Castle Street, set back from the road with tarmaced forecourt.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Early C18 town house, the building appears to have been extended at a later date and is now subdivided into two houses. Palmer mentions it as having C17 origins and it is also claimed that the original family which built the house were migrants from Chester called Dodd. Palmer also states that a wooden carved mitred head which formed a bench end at the Parish Church of St. Chad was removed to Holt Hall in 1872 to form part of a staircase.  

Exterior
Early C18, 2 storeys with central pediment, rendered and painted white, slate roof. Later? projecting flat roofed porch, lintel with stone voussoirs. 2 symmetrically placed wooden bay windows. To left C20 door but with original lintel with stone voussoirs and raised keystone. String course to first floor. First floor four windows, three placed centrally fourth to the right, all with original lintels with stone voussoirs and raised keystones. Two small oeil-de-boef windows and one blocked oeil-de-boef window in the centre of the pediment.  

Interior
Only partial inspection possible at time of re-survey (March 1996)  

Reason for designation
Listed as a surviving example of an early eighteenth-century town house.  

Group Description
1 and 2 Holt Hall (including the Peking Garden)  

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