Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hawk House in the E Garden
Chirk, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Chirk Castle, Wrexham, Chirk, designated on 29 July 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 29 July 1998
- Locality
- Chirk Castle
- Town
- Wrexham
- Community
- Chirk
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.93445, -3.08612
- Cadw reference
- 20243
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
The building stands on a slightly elevated platform overlooking the lower lawns of the E garden of Chirk Castle.
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.
Reason for designation
Included as an unusual and well placed garden feature in a rustic idiom set in the C18 gardens of Chirk Castle.
Nearby in the register
- Sundial in front of the Hawk House in the E GardenGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Medieval Font in the E GardenReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Statue of HerculesGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Ha-ha at the E end of the E GardenGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.