Abbotsfield Priory Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 1994. Hotel. 4 related planning applications.
Abbotsfield Priory Hotel
- WRENN ID
- idle-rood-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wrexham
- Constituency
- Wrexham MP: Andrew Ranger (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1994
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Abbotsfield Priory Hotel, 29 Rhosddu Road, Rhosddu, LL11 2LP
- OS grid reference
- SJ 333 508
- Coordinates
- 53.05075, -2.99583
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Abbotsfield Priory Hotel is a Gothic-style building constructed from coursed and squared tooled sandstone, topped with a slate roof featuring scalloped bands and ridge cresting. It is two storeys high and has an L-shaped plan, with the entrance located towards the centre at the angle of the wing. The entrance porch is asymmetrically gabled and features polished granite shafts supporting a deep moulded arch, with the text 'Trust in God' engraved on a scroll above.
To the left of the doorway, there is an advanced wing that includes a canted bay window with a lean-to stone roof and trefoiled mullioned lights on the lower floor. Above this, there is a two-light Decorated window, topped with a blind trefoil in the apex of the gable, which is adorned with a wrought iron finial. To the right of the entrance, a single lancet window is positioned between buttresses on the ground floor, with paired steep dormer gables above; one features a two-light decorated window, while the other has a cusped trefoiled light. The gable copings are complemented by moulded kneelers.
The principal windows for these rooms are located in the gable return, showcasing a three-light foiled mullioned window below a relieving arch on the ground floor, and an oriel window above. Beyond this gable, a canted full-height bay projects, which has trefoiled mullioned lower windows and a Decorated window above, set beneath a steep dormer gable. The building also features side wall stacks on the gabled wing and an axial stack at the rear of the main range.
The hotel has largely preserved its original layout, along with several original details, including the encaustic tiled entrance hall and the staircase, which is decorated with quatrefoil and rosette panels between heavy newels.
Local climate
Abbotsfield Priory Hotel receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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