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
20265
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
29/07/1998  
Date of Amendment
29/07/1998  
Name of Property
The Kennels  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Wrexham  
Community
Chirk  
Town
Wrexham  
Locality
Ty'n-y-groes  
Easting
326444  
Northing
339192  
Street Side
 
Location
The Kennels stand back from the Kennels Cottage, off the road bounding the Chirk Castle Estate on the NE side.  

Description


Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence  
Period
 

History
The building to which the kennels is attached is of the C17 or early C18, and was probably a barn or farm building for a house on this site, later adapted to be the Kennels for Chirk Castle.  

Exterior
The building is L-plan, partly built of stone, with an upper stage of timber framing infilled with colourwashed brick. Slated roofs. The gable facing the cottage has a later wide opening and window, and a 3-ledge dovecote in the stone gable end with approximately 18 nestboxes. The framing at the rear, and of the E arm of the L-plan, is square panelled, with decorative cross bracing in the E gable end. Tie, queen strut and collar truss. Attached at the E side are the kennels, C19, of brick, with corrugated roofs, and 4 openings for the dogs to the front opening into wire pens.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Included as an interesting example of the combined use of timber framing and stone, characteristic of the late C17 and C18, and as a substantial vernacular farmbuilding, together with a well-preserved range of mid C19 estate kennels.  

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