17854

 

II  

Designated  

07/06/1963  

03/12/1996  

Dog Yard Range  

 

Wrexham  

Marchwiel  

 

Erddig  

332639  

348120  

 

Situated in a range of estate buildings S of Erddig on the S side of the limeyard.  

Domestic  

 

Probably later C18 as part of Philip Yorke I's estate improvements of the 1770s. A plan of 1800 shows the complex and identifies a dog kitchen, flesh yard and kennels.  

Painted brick, slate roofs. L-shaped range of buildings closed on the W side by the wall of a waggon shed and on E side by a wall to form a yard. In the W wall is an opening leading to a room probably used to prepare food for the animals, on the N side a door and a window, an opening leading through to the limeyard, and to the right of this three doorways leading to former kennels. Running EW across the yard is a stone gutter which has several basins cut into it to form lapping pools. Attached to the rear of the W side is a square section brick chimney which appears to relate to the former food preparation area.  

 

Listed as an unusual example of estate accommodation for dogs and for group value with other listed buildings at Erddig.