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
20247
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/07/1998
Date of Amendment
29/07/1998
Name of Property
Ha-ha at the E end of the E Garden
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Chirk
Town
Wrexham
Locality
Chirk Castle
Easting
327167
Northing
338050
Street Side
Location
The ha-ha extends across the E end, of the E gardens, extending from the N side of Pleasure Ground Wood to the S junction with Garden Wood.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
The ha-ha was constructed in 1761-2 as part of the landscaping of the grounds of the castle by William Emes in the less formal C18 taste, replacing the iron boundary gates and screen, shown on the Thomas Badeslade engraving of 1742.
Exterior
The ha-ha consists of a stone wall approximately 2.2m high the top set flush with the lower E lawn, the outer ditch rising to a counterscarp bank in the adjoining fields.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as an important feature of the C18 landscaping of the grounds.
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