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
20243
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/07/1998
Date of Amendment
29/07/1998
Name of Property
Hawk House in the E Garden
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Chirk
Town
Wrexham
Locality
Chirk Castle
Easting
327096
Northing
338002
Street Side
Location
The building stands on a slightly elevated platform overlooking the lower lawns of the E garden of Chirk Castle.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
The first building on this site was a greenhouse designed by Joseph Turner in 1776-1778. It was considerably altered or rebuilt as a heated conservatory by Henry Weeks of Chelsea to the design of E W Pugin in 1854, and was radically rebuilt again by Lord Howard de Walden as a mews or hawk house in c1912, retaining Pugin's central bow-fronted plan. It was rethatched after a fire in 1977.
Exterior
The hawk house is of stained wood, with a thatched roof, renewed in 1981. It is of 3 bays with a central bowed front, the roof supported on a series of timber posts joined by a high-set transom. Timber slatted ceiling. At the centre, set back from the front, a weatherboarded storeroom with a door and side windows. In the deep bays each side are boarded seats. Stone flagged floor.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as an unusual and well placed garden feature in a rustic idiom set in the C18 gardens of Chirk Castle.
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