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.
Date of Designation
03/12/1996
Date of Amendment
03/12/1996
Name of Property
Stables at Marchwiel Hall
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Location
A U-shaped range of stabling situated to the N of Marchwiel Hall.
History
Stables probably originally constructed in the early C19 but extensively altered and re-fitted in the late C19. The N wall of the N range contains fragments of an earlier stone building and may represent the site of a C17 house.
Exterior
U-shaped 2-storey range of stables with attics/haylofts throughout, red brick with renewed Welsh slate roofs. N range, N elevation: considerable amount of greatly weathered red sandstone is evident. Late C20 stone plaque with the inscription: `E W M/R I R BLESSED ARE THEY THAT TRUST IN GOD 1693', said to be a copy of an original inscription. Various windows including cast-iron multi-pane casement to ground floor. N range, S elevation 4 similar windows and late C19 cast-iron bracketed canopy. Carriageway to extreme right. E range: projecting entrance bay with gable onto stable yard. Tall wooden panelled door with 10-paned arch-headed fanlight. To gable wooden receiving door. A number of arch-headed multi-pane windows to ground floor, single cast-iron lozenge patterned window probably used from an early-mid C19 estate building. Several cast-iron oval tie-plates are visible at attic level. To right 2 wooden stable doors, later 2 storey extension stepped up to right with another cast-iron lozenge pattern window. To far left single storey red brick extension, probably late C19 with fishtail and decorative coloured slate roof.
Interior
Both N and E ranges contain a number of loose boxes with a good set of late C19 fixtures and fittings including stanchions, panelling to dado height and doors. E range has stone flagged floor, access to attic floor via boxed in wooden ladders and a small heated tack room.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Marchwiel Hall.
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