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
1760
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/01/1994
Date of Amendment
31/01/1994
Name of Property
The Cross Foxes Public House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Offa
Town
Locality
Easting
333414
Northing
350249
Street Side
Location
On the upper side of Abbot Street, near its junction with Vicarage Hill.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Probably purpose-built as a public house in the late C18 or early C19, replacing an earlier inn (an inn on this site is known to have been in existance by 1775). It became the first tied house for the Wrexham Larger Brewery in 1922.
Exterior
Painted brick with slate roof. 3 storeys, 3-window range, a deep double-pile plan. Central entrance, and arched entry to courtyard to right. Panelled door with overlight in pedimented case, flanked by windows (renewed in original openings) with flat arched painted stone heads. Segmentally arched courtyard entry to right. Upper window openings are similar, with flush-framed 16-pane sashes (8-panes to attic storey). Plain eaves band. Axial and end wall stacks.
Interior
The C19 internal layout of the building survives, with the bar forming a glazed lobby immediately inside the central entrance.
Reason for designation
A good example of a town public house of C1800 which survives almost intact.
Group value with the Old Swan Public House.
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