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
20274
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/07/1998
Date of Amendment
29/07/1998
Name of Property
St Michael's Nursing Home
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Chirk
Town
Wrexham
Locality
Chirk
Easting
329339
Northing
337568
Street Side
S
Location
The building stands back from Trevor Road in its own grounds, and is reached by a curving driveway.
Description
Broad Class
Health and Welfare
Period
History
The building was built as a new vicarage for the Rev Joseph Maude in 1853 at the cost of £2,000. The architct is not known. The Reverend Maude was active in the re-evangelising of the district and founded various satellite mission churches. The building became a nursing home in 1983 after the construction of a new smaller vicarage next door.
Exterior
Built of snecked dressed stone in a simple Tudor Gothic style, with slate roofs between steeply pitched coped gables. The building consists of the house, attached servants quarters, and stabling in a picturesque arrangement of blocks, set in 2 acres of gardens. Two storeys and attics, the main front gable of the house steps back for the entrance porch - a Tudor arch containing partly glazed modern doors, and with angled shields in the spandrels. The mullioned and transomed windows have heavily moulded frames set in chamfered stone surrounds, and with horizontal moulded drip moulds over. Arms with initials IC in gable over the first floor window. The rear elevation is also strongly articulated, the main reception rooms emphasised by a more prominent gable and two-storey canted bay window, lesser gables over the adjoining two bays, and the service end necked off with a lower roof and gable. Two and 3-light timber cross windows.
Interior
The interior has been modified to meet the present use.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of a large mid-Victorian vicarage designed in the simple Gothic style favoured for such work, retaining characteristic expressive planning, including the separated articulation of the ample service accommodation, and simplified gothic detail in for example fenestration and chimneys.
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