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
1859
Building Number
69
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/01/1994
Date of Amendment
31/01/1994
Name of Property
69 Acton Gate
Address
69 Acton Gate
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Rhosddu
Town
Locality
Garden Village
Easting
333662
Northing
351967
Street Side
Location
Pair of houses towards the junction of Chester Road and Acton Gate, set back from the road in small gardens.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built as part of Wrexham Garden Village, an ambitious housing scheme initiated by Wrexham Tenants Limited in 1913 under the aegis of Co-Partnership Tenants, but adopted as one of its first five schemes by the Welsh Town Planning and Housing Trust. G. L. Sutcliffe was the architect to Co-Partnership Tenants, and was responsible for the layout of the estate, as well as for many of the building designs. This pair of houses, designed by Sutcliffe, were among the earlist houses to be built in the village.
Exterior
Roughcast render over brick, with grey slate roofs, and brick axial and end wall stacks. Neo-vernacular style. 2 storeys, a symmetrically planned 4-window range, with advanced outer gables. Entrances in short hipped roofed wings set back to either side. Doorways recessed in porches with round-arched entrances, the roof above swept down from the hipped gable.
Gabled ranges have canted bay windows with slate roofs to lower storey, and 3-light casement windows (renewed in original openings) above. Central range between the gables has roof swept down and carried on chamfered and braced timber posts over verandah, with French doors in return of gabled cross wing, and casement windows in main range. Long dormer windows of 4-lights in the roof above. Linked to the entrance blocks at either side, are hipped roofed garage extensions, which may be adapted from original outbuildings, and are similar in detail to the main building.
Interior
Reason for designation
A good example of one of the original designs for the Garden Village, forming a varied group of house designs, Nos 63 and 69-71 Acton Gate.
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