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
20251
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/07/1998
Date of Amendment
29/07/1998
Name of Property
Walls to the Privy Garden
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Chirk
Town
Wrexham
Locality
Chirk Castle
Easting
326967
Northing
338038
Street Side
Location
The privy garden adjoins the castle on the SE side. The walls define the it on the E and S, and on the W to the lower service yard
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
The privy garden on the S side of the castle is symbolic of the increasing country house role taken up by the building in the C16. The brickwork of the W wall is probably of the C16. The wall was altered in the C19, probably by E W Pugin, when the E and S walls were built as part of his remodelling of the external services undertaken after 1852.
Exterior
The S and E walls are of stonework, the latter with a central gateway to the E gardens. The W wall is in C16 brickwork, with alterations in ashlar stonework, and, at the centre there is a mid C19 entrance gateway and arch, flanked by buttresses and a pent stone slab roof, with a gate leading to steps down to the service yard. The W wall is approximately 3.5m high, and crenellated, the northern part including much early brickwork.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a significant (and rare) surviving element of an early garden layout at Chirk, notable for the early use of brick, and forming part of the ensemble of structures in the layout at the castle.
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