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
18060
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
20/12/1996
Date of Amendment
20/12/1996
Name of Property
Pickhill Hall Lodge
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Sesswick
Town
Locality
Pickhill
Easting
339946
Northing
347308
Street Side
Location
The former Lodge to Pickhill Hall is reached by a road south of the B5130 (Holt Road) entered adjacent to Fingerpot Cottage. After its junction with Watery Lane the road becomes a track. The Lodge is situated before the entrance to Home Farm.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built as part of the Victorian improvements to the Pickhill Hall estate by the Ormrod family. Building details such as the design of the chimney stacks indicate it to be contemporary with the eastern extension of Pickhill Hall which has a date stone of 1866. In the Scottish Baronial style popular at this time.
Exterior
Two storey gate-lodge of red brick construction with stone dressings under a grey slate roof with wide projecting eaves. Conical stair turret to the north with polychromatic decoration in red and blue brick and fish-scale slate tiling. Semi-circular headed windows and front door.
Interior
Internal inspection not possible at the time of resurvey in 1996.
Reason for designation
Listed as an unusual example of a Gate-Lodge in the Scottish Baronial style and for group value with it's gate-piers and Pickhill Hall.
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