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
1759
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/05/1951
Date of Amendment
31/01/1994
Name of Property
Wymmstay Arms Hotel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Caia Park
Town
Locality
Easting
333649
Northing
350232
Street Side
E
Location
On the corner of Yorke Street and Charles Street, prominently sited facing down High Street.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
First recorded as an inn in 1702, rebuilt C1780, and extended with new building in early C19. The present facade is all that survives of the C18 and C19 hotel, as the entire building was demolished and rebuilt behind these facades, 1970-73.
Exterior
The earliest part of the building is the 3-storyed, 6-window range block on the corner with Charles Street together with the recessed block to right over former courtyard entry: this may be C1780. Entrance to right of centre in stressed architrave, the windows above it also stressed, with pediment over first floor. Other windows have painted stone heads with voussoirs, and brick aprons, and are 12-pane sashes (9-pane to attic storey). Cast iron balcony to first floor with Grecian motifs. Plain painted band below moulded eaves cornice. Painted angle quoins on corner with Charles Street, and curved angle to right, which links to single window range over former courtyard entry. This has segmentally arched entrance to ground floor, the windows above given emphasis by the entablature hood over the first floor window, and by the segmentally arched head of the upper window. 5-window return to Charles Street, including blocked carriage entry to the left.
The 3-window range to the right of the original block, stepped down the slope of Yorke Street, represents an early C19 extension of the hotel. It balances the original building, with a curved corner adjoining the former courtyard entrance, and by using similar detail, in the eaves cornice, for example. Its fenestration is to a different pattern however, with round-arched lower openings, and a tripartite sash window across the curved corner; upper windows have moulded architraves and continuous sill bands.
Interior
Reason for designation
Although only the facades of the original hotel buildings survive, thay are of exceptional architectural quality, and the building makes an important contribution to the group of commercial buildings on High Street.
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