Listed Buildings : Erddig Hall, Marchwiel

Erddig Hall

The original house was built for Joshua Edisbury by Thomas Webb, Freemason of Middlewich. In 1716 the house was acquired by John Mellor who enlarged and furnished the house. On his death it passed to his nephew Simon Yorke, and descended through the Yorkes until given to the National Trust in 1973.


The Yorke connection to Wrexham seems to be in the administration of the town.Philip York II was Mayor of Wrexham from 1896-7 in Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Year although he was not a member of the town council. Its east front is of red brick with stone dressings and string courses, and a slate roof hipped to central chimneys. It has two storeys and a basement and attic. The windows are generally 12 pane sashes with the basement. It has a near symmetrical elevation which consists of nine window block with pedimented entrance with steps leading up to it. There is a range of seven dormer windows in the steeply pitched roof block. The western front was refaced in ashlar in severe late 18th Century Neoclassical style.


Listed Grade I as a county house with late 17th century origins and phases of early 18th Century and late 19th Century including well preserved interior schemes. It relates to an unusually well preserved early garden and a late landscaped park. It has group value with the kitchen, stable buildings of the estate yard and listed garden structures.

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