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
1737
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
30/01/1992  
Date of Amendment
26/10/1995  
Name of Property
Game Larder at Plas Power  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Wrexham  
Community
Coedpoeth  
Town
 
Locality
Bersham  
Easting
329912  
Northing
349829  
Street Side
 
Location
Immediately to SW of the site of Plas Power house, adjoining brick wall that formerly bordered the service courtyard.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Plas Power estate lies NW of Bersham and SE of Coedpoeth; the game larder is near the sourther end of the park and is reached 1km along the N drive off A425. Close to Offa's Dyke. Plas Power was completely remodelled in 1858 for Thomas Lloyd Fitzhugh by John Gibson, architect, of London and was demolished in 1946-7. The Game Larder is contemporary with this remodelling and the associated improvements to the estate and is shown on a plan of 1866.  

Exterior
Octagonal red brick structure with hammer dressed, long and short sandstone quoins. Unusually steep slate roof with bands of shaped slates and very wide overhanging eaves carried on arched timber brackets springing from stone corbels; timber finial to top. Rectangular windows concealed under the eaves with freestone architraves, metal bars and gauze. Panelled door. Internally the walls are diagonally tiled below the windows with blue and white band to the top.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of this building type and for its special interest as a surviving building associated with Plas Power. Group value with the Dairy at Plas Power.  

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