Screen Wall and Towers defining the S Stable Yard on the S side, Chirk, Wrexham

Coordinates

Latitude: 52.9346 / 52°56'4"N

Longitude: -3.09 / 3°5'23"W

OS Eastings: 326836

OS Northings: 338022

OS Grid: SJ268380

Mapcode National: GBR 71.M5XB

Mapcode Global: WH78C.HHTM

Plus Code: 9C4RWWM6+R2

Entry Name: Screen Wall and Towers defining the S Stable Yard on the S side

Listing Date: 29 July 1998

Last Amended: 29 July 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 20250

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300020250

Location: The structure runs parallel to the S wing of the stables, on the lip of the escarpment

County: Wrexham

Town: Wrexham

Community: Chirk (Y Waun)

Community: Chirk

Locality: Chirk Castle

Traditional County: Denbighshire

Tagged with: Wall

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History

The structure was built from 1852-3 by Edward W Pugin, architect, at the time of his renovation and refacing of the stable blocks.

Exterior

The screen begins at the W with a small circular turret with conical roof at the top of the ramp wall. The screen wall to the next turret has a high parapet with wide spaced crenels above a raised walk along the rea which provides access to the two intermediate small rectangular towers with hipped slate roofs. Beyond the second tower, the screen wall follows the line of a large semicircular bastion, returning to the line at the E end, where there is a terminal turret, the wall returning to the end of the stable block.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a strong element in the ensemble of buildings at Chirk, in which the Teutonic Gothic style favoured by E W Pugin provides an appropriate link between the austere fortress-like character of the original castle, and its romantic setting above the valley, in the context of C19 gothic sensibilities.

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Screen Wall and Towers defining the S Stable Yard on the S side

A Grade II Listed Building in Chirk, Wrexham