Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Abbotsfield Priory Hotel
Rhosddu, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Rhosddu, Wrexham, designated on 31 January 1994.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 31 January 1994
- Community
- Rhosddu
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.05074, -2.99583
- Cadw reference
- 1853
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the corner of Rhosddu Road and Grosvenor Road.
History
Built as a house in 1863, by J. C. Gummow, architect, for Mr. Edward Jones, and now in use as a hotel.
Exterior
Coursed and squared tooled sandstone, and slate roof with scalloped bands and ridge cresting. Gothic style. 2 storeys, L-plan, with entrance towards centre in angle of wing. Asymmetrically gabled entrance porch with polished granite shafts to deep moulded arch and text, 'Trust in God' engraved on scroll over it. Advanced wing to left of doorway, with canted bay window with lean-to stone roof and trefoiled mullioned lights to lower floor, 2-light Decorated window above, with blind trefoil in apex of gable, which is surmounted by a wrought iron finial. Right of the entrance, a single lancet window between buttresses to ground floor, and paired steep dormer gables above, one with 2-light decorated window, the other with cusped trefoiled light. Gable copings with moulded kneelers. Principal windows to these rooms are in gable return, with 3-light foiled mullioned window below relieving arch to ground floor, and oriel window above. Beyond this gable, a canted full-height bay projects, with trefoiled mullioned lower windows and Decorated window above, set beneath steep dormer gable. Side wall stacks to gabled wing, and axial stack to rear of main range.
Interior
The building substantially retains its original layout, and several original details also survive including the encaustic tiled entrance hall and the staircase with quatrefoil and rosette panels between heavy newels.
Reason for designation
Although the building has been extended in connection with its present use, the original structure is still clearly articulated, and stands as a good example of the work of Gummow in the gothic style.
Nearby in the register
- 28 Grosvenor RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
- 26 Grosvenor RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
- Plas GwilymDomesticunder 1 mi
- RomanoDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.