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
1816
Building Number
5  
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
16/06/1980  
Date of Amendment
31/01/1994  
Name of Property
5 Town Hall  
Address
5 Town Hall  

Location


Unitary Authority
Wrexham  
Community
Offa  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
333488  
Northing
350188  
Street Side
S  
Location
On the south side of the street adjacent to its junction with Church Street, and forming a single build with No 7.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Built as a house, and probably originally forming part of a larger property with No. 7. Probably early C16, subdivided from the original property c1800, the rear range added or rebuilt c1900.  

Exterior
Render over timber frame, the rear wing brick, with slate roofs throughout. Square panelled framing revealed in upper gable wall when adjacent property was demolished. 2 storeys, 2 window range with shallow gable over left hand upper window. Shop front by Pollard of London inserted in 1927: Painted bronze framework to plate glass windows, the entrance to the shop itself recessed to maximize window display area, which is symmetrically planned to incorporate a central island display unit.  

Interior
Traces of the original timber framed structure are visible at first floor level: cambered tie beam with queen post and collar roof in upper gable wall, and central king post and strut truss (partially cut through). Traces of wind braces visible in rear slope of roof, and possibly on front slope also, but plastered over.  

Reason for designation
An important survivor of late medieval Wrexham, forming a historically significant group with Nos 7 and 9 Town Hill, and with a fine example of an early C20 shop front.  

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