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
1843
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
31/01/1994  
Date of Amendment
31/01/1994  
Name of Property
Central Arcade  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Wrexham  
Community
Rhosddu  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
333537  
Northing
350251  
Street Side
 
Location
On the north side of Hope Street, linking it with the Butchers' Market.  

Description


Broad Class
Commercial  
Period
 

History
Shopping arcade, dated 1891, and built by A. C. Baugh, architect.  

Exterior
Brick with terracotta dressings, slate roof over frontage building, glazed roof to arcade. Frontage building is 3 storeyed with attics, 3 window range with central entrance to arcade flanked on each side by shops. Original shop fronts survive with outer pilasters carrying brackets of continuous fascia. The shop windows, with slender iron glazing bars, survive in right hand unit. Upper storeys divided by full-height pilasters carrying cornice over upper storey. Outer canted oriel windows above, and central paired sashes, with pediment carried on brackets and enriched with terracotta relief. Windows are all 2-pane sashes. Pedimented attic windows each side of central pediment, which has name (Wrexham Arcade) and date in relief. Dutch gables to either side. Narrow shops to side of the arcade itself are faced in white brick. Shop fronts renewed in original openings, the beaded fascias surviving. Tripartite windows to upper rooms also largely original, and are separated by pilasters with heavy reeded console brackets. Iron trusses to glazed clerestory roof.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
A good example of late C19 arcade development which has retained many elements of the original design.  

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