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
1788
Building Number
33
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/06/1980
Date of Amendment
31/01/1994
Name of Property
33 High Street
Address
33 High Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Offa
Town
Locality
Easting
333568
Northing
350204
Street Side
Location
Part of a continuously developed building line on south side of High Street.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Built as a bank in c1912 by Grayson and Ould, architects, for the Bank of Liverpool, and now used as offices.
Exterior
White ashlar to ground floor, red sandstone above, with brick to rear, and slate roof. 3 storeyed with attic, 3 window range. Palazzo style. Paired Corinthian engaged giant columns above ground floor, supporting pediment with modillion cornice and lunette, enriched with garlands. Doorway to right with pediment carried on console brackets, and 2 round arched windows with stressed keystones. Upper windows are sashes, the outer windows of 12-panes, the wider central windows of 20 and 16 panes. Shell motif over central first floor window, and foliate swags beneath upper windows. Egg and dart cornice band below pediment. Coped gables with end wall stacks.
Interior
Retains most of the original plan and some detail including staircase with turned balusters with finials and pendants to newels, and some plaster cornice work, part concealed by suspended ceilings to ground floor. One upper room has a C18 Adam-style fireplace.
Reason for designation
A good example of early C20 commercial architecture, forming part of an important group of commercial buildings.
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