Wall on the NE side of the driveway to the Stables, Chirk, Wrexham

Coordinates

Latitude: 52.9349 / 52°56'5"N

Longitude: -3.0905 / 3°5'25"W

OS Eastings: 326800

OS Northings: 338060

OS Grid: SJ268380

Mapcode National: GBR 71.M5SX

Mapcode Global: WH78C.HHKC

Plus Code: 9C4RWWM5+XQ

Entry Name: Wall on the NE side of the driveway to the Stables

Listing Date: 29 July 1998

Last Amended: 29 July 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 20267

Building Class: Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces

ID on this website: 300020267

Location: The wall bounds the NE side of the driveway, and encloses the service access from the park to the N.

County: Wrexham

Town: Wrexham

Community: Chirk (Y Waun)

Community: Chirk

Locality: Chirk Castle

Traditional County: Denbighshire

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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.

Reasons for Listing

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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Wall on the NE side of the driveway to the Stables

A Grade II Listed Building in Chirk, Wrexham