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
1823
Building Number
23
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/06/1980
Date of Amendment
31/01/1994
Name of Property
The Old Registry Office
Address
23 Chester Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Rhosddu
Town
Locality
Easting
333594
Northing
350473
Street Side
Location
Part of a continuous building line to the west side of Chester Street north of its junction with Lambpit Street.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built as a house, now in use as offices, and previousley used as the District Register Office. Early C18, the exterior apparently remodelled in the later C18. Possibly the building refered to by Palmer as Chester Street House, and described by him as being new in 1727.
Exterior
Stucco over brick, rusticated to ground floor. Slate roof. 3 storeys, 3 window range with central entrance, double pile plan with 2 parallel gabled ranges. Portico porch with coupled Tuscean columns, flanked by 12-pane floor-height sash windows on ground and first floors. Floor-height 2-light casement window over doorway, and 16-pane sash windows to attic storey. Moulded brackets to overhanging eaves. Shallow coped gables.
Interior
The original internal layout survives almost intact: central entrance hall, divided by an archway and with stairs to rear. Early C18 staircase with turned balusters, heavy ramped rail and square-section newels. The staircase divides above the ground floor, and two flights give access to the front and rear ranges of the upper storey (these flights have been largely replaced). A number of rooms retain early C18 joinery and plasterwork details, including internal window shutters and doorcases; one ground floor room has painted panelling, with tall panels above the dado, moulded cornice and plaster-panelling to ceiling beam. Scrolled plaster panels in first floor room, the enriched plaster ceiling renewed after fire damage.
Reason for designation
An important local example of a C18 town house.
Group value with Nos 24-25, 27, 28, 29 and 35 Chester Street.
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