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
1797
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/01/1994
Date of Amendment
31/01/1994
Name of Property
The Nags Head Public House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Offa
Town
Locality
Easting
333625
Northing
350089
Street Side
S
Location
On the junction of Mount Street with Turtle Street, and prominently sited facing up Yorke Street.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Public House. An old foundation, the present building was extensively remodelled late C19 when the building formed part of the Soames Brwery complex, though probably incorporating elements of the earlier structure. The building was acquired in 1879 by F. W. Soames, together with the brewery, and the remodelling was almost certainly carried out under his management. The vernacular revival style adopted was originally more vigorous than that which survives - a photograph of C1910 shows the building more boldly enriched with decorative framing, gothick tracery to windows, and embattled parapet.
Exterior
Lined out render to ground floor, with mock square-panelled framing above, probably over brick. Slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 window range with central entrance. Doorway in shallow lean-to porch flanked by 2-light casement windows each with ornamental gable with decorative timber struts, fretted barge-boards and finials, carried on brackets from timber posts. Gabled dormer in similar style over the 3-light leaded casement window above the doorway, which has drop-end hood moulds. Outer 5-light windows, with 3-light oriel windows above them and over the door, with 3-light oriel windows carried on brackets above, each with gabled dormer with fretted bargeboards and finials above. Parapet links the 3 gables. End wall stacks. Rear ranges to each side were formerly part of Border Brewery.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of late C19 neo-vernacular work applied to an older structure.
Group value, especially with the former Border Brewery chimney.
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