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
1813
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/01/1994
Date of Amendment
31/01/1994
Name of Property
The Bishops House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Offa
Town
Locality
Easting
333340
Northing
349484
Street Side
E
Location
Set back from the road in grounds, adjacent to the junction with Belgrave Road.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
House, now the residence of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Wrexham. Built in 1865 to designs of J. R. Gummow for Thomas Williams, and formerly known as Plas Tirion.
Exterior
Brick with stone dressings and slate roof. 2 storeys, square in plan, with 3-window entrance range, and short service wing to rear. Anglo-Italian style. Central entrance, and advanced gable to the left. Stone porch with outer rusticated pilasters, coupled with panelled pilasters with foliate capitals. Modillion cornice to entablature which carries cast iron balcony rail. Round-arched entrance door within. Adjoining the porch, a canopy carried on ornate cast iron columns continues across the lower window of the right hand bay. Stone canted bay window in gable to left of entrance, with segmentally arched central light, and blind panels above transom of side lights. Upper windows renewed in round-arched openings set beneath steeply arched hood moulds. Cornice forms open pediment in left hand gable, and in smaller dormer gable to right. Garden front: 2 window range, with tripartite canted bay window with renewed French doors to left, and French doors also renewed in original opening to right. Stone swags and capitals to central pilasters of bay window, which has rusticated outer pilasters. Heavy stone brackets carry entablature which forms balconette with cast iron rail above right hand window. Upper windows both round arched, set beneath steep hood moulds. Double cornice as sill band to these upper windows, and deep bracketted cornice to projecting eaves. Central stack with moulded stone cap, the chimney on the right hand gable wall truncated.
Interior
The house retains its original plan, with central top-lit stair hall, separated from the entrance hall by a panelled archway. C18 style stair, with moulded tread ends and swept rail. Some original joinery, fire-place surrounds and plaster work also survive.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of the work of the local architect, J. R. Gummow.
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