Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
20243
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/07/1998
Date of Amendment
29/07/1998
Name of Property
Hawk House in the E Garden
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Chirk
Town
Wrexham
Locality
Chirk Castle
Easting
327096
Northing
338002
Street Side
Location
The building stands on a slightly elevated platform overlooking the lower lawns of the E garden of Chirk Castle.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
The first building on this site was a greenhouse designed by Joseph Turner in 1776-1778. It was considerably altered or rebuilt as a heated conservatory by Henry Weeks of Chelsea to the design of E W Pugin in 1854, and was radically rebuilt again by Lord Howard de Walden as a mews or hawk house in c1912, retaining Pugin's central bow-fronted plan. It was rethatched after a fire in 1977.
Exterior
The hawk house is of stained wood, with a thatched roof, renewed in 1981. It is of 3 bays with a central bowed front, the roof supported on a series of timber posts joined by a high-set transom. Timber slatted ceiling. At the centre, set back from the front, a weatherboarded storeroom with a door and side windows. In the deep bays each side are boarded seats. Stone flagged floor.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as an unusual and well placed garden feature in a rustic idiom set in the C18 gardens of Chirk Castle.
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