History

House, dated 1876, and probably designed by E. A. Ould for W. E. Samuel, for his own use (his initials appear in a monogramme over the doorway).

Exterior

Brick with stone dressings and half-timbered upper storey. Red plain tiled roof. Arts and Crafts style. 2-storeyed, L-plan. Entrance front faces Fairy Road, and has central entrance porch with 4-centred stone archway, with date and initials on lintel. Canted oriel with steep facetted conical roof jettied out above the entrance. Paired sash windows either side of the doorway, and segmental string course or corbel table below timbered upper storey, which has casement windows either side of central oriel. Return elevation to Erddig Road has expressed stack in gable, with moulded shafts and heavy cap, then rear wing which has higher hipped roof, and houses large mullioned and transomed stair windows, with leaded glazing. Canted angle to rear elevation, which has cat-slide roof against inner angle to garden front. Gabled return of entrance range has canted bay window to ground floor, and casement window in jettied gable above. Gable apex further jettied out. Semi-octagonal turret carried on corbels in inner angle with continuous casement windows with leaded glazing and faceted conical roof.

Reasons for Listing

A very good example of the Arts and Crafts style, using local materials.

Forms a group with Nos 5-7 and 9 Fairy Road.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• No.11 (Stafford House), Fairy Road (N Side) at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q29482024

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Recommended Books

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)