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
1830
Building Number
1
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/10/1991
Date of Amendment
31/01/1994
Name of Property
1 Grosvenor Road
Address
1 Grosvenor Road
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Rhosddu
Town
Locality
Easting
333162
Northing
350560
Street Side
NW
Location
Prominently sited at the corner with Regent Street, opposite the RC cathedral and with long elevation to Regent Street.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built in 1869 as Grosvenor Lodge by J. R. Gummow, for Isaac Shone.
Exterior
Italianate villa style (described as Anglo-Italian by Gummow). Brick with ashlar dressings including raised and channelled quoins and deep modillion cornice. Slate roof, hipped with axial stacks, probably truncated. 2 storeys, the main elevations are a 2-window entrance front to Regent Street, and a symmetrical 5 window (1-3-1) range to Regent Street. Entrance in advanced porch to right, with segmental archway between channelled outer piers and fluted Corinthian inner pilasters; round arched entrance with panelled double doors. Balustraded parapet over projecting cornice. Chanelled architrave to ground floor window alongside. The 2 upper windows are set in round arched architraves with fluted Corinthian pilasters, and scallopped tympana. Left hand window has a strapwork balconette carried on brackets. Lintel and sill string courses form continuous band between the floors, continuing across Regent Street elevation. This elevation has advanced squared bay windows to either side, divided by Corinthian pilasters, and supporting strapwork balconettes of upper windows. Central windows grouped as 3 in slightly advanced channelled stone panel, from which moulded brackets carry balconette linking triple windows above. All first floor windows detailed as to Grosvenor Road elevation. Lower service wing recessed to rear, with hipped roof, side entrance and tripartite sash window above; eaves oversailing on moulded wood brackets. 3 storeyed hipped roof tower beyond is a somewhat later addition. Recessed centre panel to main facade, paired ground floor windows and smaller lights to upper floors.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved example of this Victorian Italianate villa style, and for its prominent position on the edge of the town centre.
Group value with the Roman Catholic Cathedral and with No 2 Grosvenor Road.
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