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
551
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/04/1985
Date of Amendment
15/08/2001
Name of Property
Game Larder to W of Soughton Hall
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Northop
Town
Mold
Locality
Soughton Hall
Easting
324760
Northing
367360
Street Side
N
Location
In copse 150m from NW corner of house.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Soughton Hall was first built c1727 for the Conway family and was in Baroque style. It was fitted out after 1732 for the Rev John Wynne, Bishop of St Asaph (1714-1727) and subsequently Bath & Wells. His daughter married Henry Bankes of Kingston Lacy, Dorset, and the hall remained in the ownership of the Bankes family until the 1980s (it is now a hotel). The house was remodelled several times in the C19, including major work in the 1820s by William John Bankes and the architect, Sir Charles Barry. In 1868, Soughton Hall was extensively remodelled by John Douglas, architect of Chester, for John Scott Bankes.
The game larder was built in 1872 by John Douglas of Chester.
Exterior
Tall octagonal game larder under a swept slate pyramidal roof with snuffer-topped timber lantern to apex (formerly a pigeon loft). The sides of the larder are timber framed with brick nogging; timber piers to angles between which are full-width 3-light wooden windows with transoms and iron glazing. Timber panels below infilled with herring-bone brickwork. Double half-glazed entrance doors to E side with overlight. High sandstone plinth raised on shouldered ventilation arches; 4 stone steps up to entrance doors.
Interior
The interior retains an inverted conical iron frame with hoops bearing hooks for hanging game.
Reason for designation
Listed as an unusual estate building retaining its character, and an example of the work of the architect, John Douglas.
Group value with Soughton Hall and associated items.
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