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
1782
Building Number
11
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/01/1994
Date of Amendment
31/01/1994
Name of Property
Stafford House
Address
11 Fairy Road
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Offa
Town
Locality
Easting
333274
Northing
349654
Street Side
Location
Situated in its own grounds on an 'island' site ringed by Fairy Road, Sontley Road and Erddig Road.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
House, dated 1876, and probably designed by E. A. Ould for W. E. Samuel, for his own use (his initials appear in a monogramme over the doorway).
Exterior
Brick with stone dressings and half-timbered upper storey. Red plain tiled roof. Arts and Crafts style. 2-storeyed, L-plan. Entrance front faces Fairy Road, and has central entrance porch with 4-centred stone archway, with date and initials on lintel. Canted oriel with steep facetted conical roof jettied out above the entrance. Paired sash windows either side of the doorway, and segmental string course or corbel table below timbered upper storey, which has casement windows either side of central oriel. Return elevation to Erddig Road has expressed stack in gable, with moulded shafts and heavy cap, then rear wing which has higher hipped roof, and houses large mullioned and transomed stair windows, with leaded glazing. Canted angle to rear elevation, which has cat-slide roof against inner angle to garden front. Gabled return of entrance range has canted bay window to ground floor, and casement window in jettied gable above. Gable apex further jettied out. Semi-octagonal turret carried on corbels in inner angle with continuous casement windows with leaded glazing and faceted conical roof.
Interior
Reason for designation
A very good example of the Arts and Crafts style, using local materials.
Forms a group with Nos 5-7 and 9 Fairy Road.
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