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Latitude: 53.04 / 53°2'23"N
Longitude: -2.9966 / 2°59'47"W
OS Eastings: 333274
OS Northings: 349654
OS Grid: SJ332496
Mapcode National: GBR 75.DJL7
Mapcode Global: WH88Y.YV6C
Plus Code: 9C5V22Q3+X9
Entry Name: Stafford House
Listing Date: 31 January 1994
Last Amended: 31 January 1994
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 1782
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300001782
Location: Situated in its own grounds on an 'island' site ringed by Fairy Road, Sontley Road and Erddig Road.
County: Wrexham
Community: Offa
Community: Offa
Built-Up Area: Wrexham
Traditional County: Denbighshire
Tagged with: Building
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).
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.
A very good example of the Arts and Crafts style, using local materials.
Forms a group with Nos 5-7 and 9 Fairy Road.
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