Hawk House in the E Garden, Chirk, Wrexham

Coordinates

Latitude: 52.9345 / 52°56'4"N

Longitude: -3.0861 / 3°5'9"W

OS Eastings: 327096

OS Northings: 338002

OS Grid: SJ270380

Mapcode National: GBR 72.M0W8

Mapcode Global: WH78C.KHMQ

Plus Code: 9C4RWWM7+QH

Entry Name: Hawk House in the E Garden

Listing Date: 29 July 1998

Last Amended: 29 July 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 20243

Building Class: Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces

ID on this website: 300020243

Location: The building stands on a slightly elevated platform overlooking the lower lawns of the E garden of Chirk Castle.

County: Wrexham

Town: Wrexham

Community: Chirk (Y Waun)

Community: Chirk

Locality: Chirk Castle

Traditional County: Denbighshire

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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.

Reasons for Listing

Included as an unusual and well placed garden feature in a rustic idiom set in the C18 gardens of Chirk Castle.

External Links

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Sundial in front of the Hawk House in the E Garden
The sundial stands on the lawn below, and on the axis of, the Hawk House.
II Medieval Font in the E Garden
The font is placed at the topmost point of the rock garden, behind the Hawk House, in the E gardens of Chirk Castle.
II Statue of Hercules
Hercules is now sited on the axis of the E axial view from the castle where it passes through woodland.
II Ha-ha at the E end of the E Garden
The ha-ha extends across the E end, of the E gardens, extending from the N side of Pleasure Ground Wood to the S junction with Garden Wood.
II Statue by the lily pond in the E Garden
The statue stands on the edge of the circular lily pond at the lower end of the gardens.
II Walls to the Privy Garden
The privy garden adjoins the castle on the SE side. The walls define the it on the E and S, and on the W to the lower service yard
II Statue in the E Garden
The statue flanks the opening in the hedge between the top cross lawn and the lower fruit tree garden, E of Chirk Castle.
II Statue in the E Garden
The two statues flank the opening in the hedge between the upper cross lawn, and the lower fruit tree lawn in the E gardens of the Castle.

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Hawk House in the E Garden

A Grade II Listed Building in Chirk, Wrexham