Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
20267
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/07/1998
Date of Amendment
29/07/1998
Name of Property
Wall on the NE side of the driveway to the Stables
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Chirk
Town
Wrexham
Locality
Chirk Castle
Easting
326800
Northing
338060
Street Side
Location
The wall bounds the NE side of the driveway, and encloses the service access from the park to the N.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
The wall was built probably in the mid C19 contemporary with the work to the stables and stable yard undertaken by E W Pugin, outlining the circulation to the SW corner of the castle originally laid out by Emes in the 1760s.
Exterior
The wall is approximately 90m long and 1.7m high, built of uncoursed rubble stonework, and provided with a two-stage gabled ashlar coping. At the bottom it terminates in a low square pier, with 3-stage copings forming a pyramid, and at the upper end, it departs from the road and climbs up to form a gateway with flanking piers between the park and the yard, and continues beyond to meet the W wall of the castle.
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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