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
17689
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
03/06/1996  
Date of Amendment
03/06/1996  
Name of Property
Courtyard Walls and three gazebos to rear of Roft Castle House  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Wrexham  
Community
Gresford  
Town
 
Locality
Marford  
Easting
335839  
Northing
356348  
Street Side
S  
Location
Situated to the rear of Roft Castle House where there is a sunken courtyard with an entrance to a drive which led to the former stables on Springfield Lane.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Probably constructed at the same time as the main house in 1836-7, which was built by John Boydell, steward of the Trevalyn Estate, for himself.  

Exterior
High brick walls with stone crenellation run on 3 sides of the courtyard and return to extend along each side of the drive. The walls are rendered on the inner faces of the courtyard and are buttressed. On each side of the entrance to the yard is an octagonal gazebo. These have slate roofs and are rendered with dentil cornices and have doorways with ogee heads. A third similar gazebo is in the angle of the attached brick wall as it returns along the side of the garden.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed as a picturesque garden and courtyard feature of early C19 design and for historical associations with John Boydell. Group value with Roft Castle.  

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