Rackery Hall ( including attached forecourt walls) is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 7 June 1963. House.
Rackery Hall ( including attached forecourt walls)
- WRENN ID
- floating-pilaster-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 7 June 1963
- Type
- House
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Hand made red brick, Flemish bond to front elevation, English garden wall bond to others; sandstone plinth and quoins, sandstone string course to the first floor. Slate roof with stone copings and kneelers to gables, red brick chimneys rise from gable ends. Wooden cornice with plain brackets. 2 storeys with attic and basement. Symmetrical front elevation: central door with shell canopy, 4 windows to ground floor are recessed with 4-pane horned sashes and painted stone lintels and stone cills. Second floor has 5 similar windows; attic storey has 3 small gabled 4-pane dormers. Rear elevation has 4 later windows which are set in possibly C17 window openings. C20 single storey addition formed in part from a stone dairy. Brick walls with stone copings are attached to each side of the house, they are cranked and run parallel to the drive creating a formal enclosure.
retains many early C18 features including an oak well staircase with closed string and turned balusters which rises through the full height of the building. Remains of kitchen fireplace with bread oven to one of ground floor rooms. Wide boarded doors and chamfered and stopped ceiling beams to ground floor rooms. First floor room contains powder cupboard. The cellar retains a stone mullioned window.
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