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
1831
Building Number
2
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/01/1994
Date of Amendment
31/01/1994
Name of Property
2 Grosvenor Road
Address
2 Grosvenor Road
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Rhosddu
Town
Locality
Easting
333200
Northing
350510
Street Side
SE
Location
Prominently sited on the corner with Regent Street.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built c1870, possibly to designs of J. R. Gummow, the local architect responsible for much of the suburban development of the town in the latter part of the C19.
Exterior
Simplified Italianate villa style. Brick with some ashlar dressings, and slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 window range to entrance front facing Grosvenor Road, with central entrance and advanced outer gables, and 3 window range to Regent Street with advanced central gable. Entrance in narrow central bay, recessed in porch with coupled rusticated and panelled pilasters supporting entablature. Canted stone bay windows in advanced outer gables, with 2-pane full-height sashes; 2-pane sash windows in stone architraves to upper storey, with stone sill band continuing across return elevations. Gables are pedimented by painted modillion cornice, which continues across central bay. Return elevation to Regent Street has pedimented central gable, the cornice continuing across a full-height canted stone bay window which has shallow segmentally arched lights with keystones and bracketted sills. Flanking windows in moulded stone architraves, segmentally arched to ground floor. Opposite return elevation is similar, but without the central bay window.
Axial stacks towards rear of advanced gabled wings are both truncated, but rear wall stacks both retain oversailing stone caps.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of the villa building which was such a notable feature of Wrexham's late C19 development, and for its prominent siting on the edge of the town centre.
Group value with No. 1 Grosvenor Road, and with the Roman Catholic Cathedral opposite.
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