Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Wall on the NE side of the driveway to the Stables
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
- 52.93493, -3.09054
- Cadw reference
- 20267
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 wall bounds the NE side of the driveway, and encloses the service access from the park to the N.
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.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Wall bounding driveway to the Stables and continuing the stable yard screenGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Stable RangesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Screen Wall and Towers defining the S Stable Yard on the S sideDomesticunder 1 mi
- Chirk CastleDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.