Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
20266
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/07/1998
Date of Amendment
29/07/1998
Name of Property
Wall bounding driveway to the Stables and continuing the stable yard screen
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Chirk
Town
Wrexham
Locality
Chirk Castle
Easting
326810
Northing
338040
Street Side
Location
The driveway from Deepark Lodge drive climbs up to the stables. The wall defines the road on the SW side.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
The wall was probably built in the mid C19 contemporary with E W Pugin's screen wall, and outlining the circulation to the SW corner of the castle originally laid out by William Emes in the 1760s.
Exterior
The wall is approximately 800m long and 1.5m high, built of uncoursed rubble stonework with a triangular ashlar coping. At the top it adjoins the end of the screen wall to the stable yard, and, at the bottom of the steep driveway, the wall terminates in a square pier with three offsetting ashlar copings forming a pyramid.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a significant element in the ensemble of buildings at Chirk Castle, and an essential part of the remodelling of the stable group in the Gothic idiom.
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