Trevalyn Hall (including former lodge)

Trevalyn Hall is an Elizabethan country house, constructed of brick with stone dressings on a stone plinth of five exposed courses. Evidence suggests that the house's service wing and a linking corridor were once rendered with pebbledash in the early 19th century under the stewardship of John Boydell. This rendering, intended to mimic the style of the estate cottages in Gresford and Rossett within the Picturesque Movement’s Cottage Orne style, was later removed after the Hall was sub-divided. The house is arranged as two storeys plus attic, with an H-plan featuring projecting cross wings and a central entrance bay to the south-east. Each bay of the principal elevation is gabled and topped with tulip-shaped finials at both base and apex. The three projecting bays display armorial bearings carved in stone, set between the first and second-floor windows, including those of the Sackville family. All windows on this elevation have triangular pediments, including the main entrance. First and second-floor windows feature stone mullions intersected by a single transome. The attic windows are of two lights and may originally have been blind, similar to those on the service wing and other contemporary buildings in Rossett. The north and south cross wings continue this fenestration pattern, with larger windows on the second storey and projecting, gabled, finialed bays to the east and west. A glazed canopy supported on five classical columns was added to the north cross wing, likely during remodelling by the Griffiths in the 1830s. The rear elevation shows projecting, gabled, finialed cross wings framing a recessed central section of three bays and incorporating a bracketed cornice. A single-story corridor leads from the central bay to the contemporary Service Wing, which includes a central, gabled Porters Lodge of three bays, with two storeys to the central bay. The corridor and lodge are lit by two-light, triangular pedimented windows, similarly gabled and finialed. Entrance to the Porters Lodge is through an arched doorway framed by a Doric aedicule. The house was remodelled in the 1830s by Thomas Jones for the Griffith family and subsequently converted into two flats in 1984. Some rooms retain fireplaces by Jones, and there's an upstairs staircase leading to a panelled gallery, although some modern detailing has been introduced.