Turf hotel Wrexham, Additional note 
The Turf hotel is situated facing the Mold Road, now dwarfed by Wrexham football club's new Racecourse building of the late-1990s.

Exterior
It is an attractive, mid-19th century, rendered and slate-roofed, double-pile plan public house, of 2-storeys, with brick chimney stacks and sandstone dressings to openings, quoins, mid-rail and plinth. It has deep bracketed eaves to a courtyard type roof, a canted-bay to the north-west elevation, and a gallery designed to view the horse racing. 
The south-west elevation with central entrance and south-east elevations have arched recessed sash window openings to ground-floor with lugged mouldings and rectangular first-floor sash openings with projecting key-stone. The entrance has a bracketed timber gabled porch and decorative slate roof .
Its north-east elevation, formerly had a first-floor gallery with cast-iron balustrade, supported by up to six decorative and bracketed cast-iron columns, shown in print from film footage of 1906. One of the original columns is reused internally as a feature (see photo) the others have been replaced by  an extension. The print shows the first-floor with the same windows, but with a doorway at the right end, and painted imitation timber-frame walling.
A later gallery (see photo) exists, retaining benches and individual seats, and was usable until a new stand was built, blocking the view in the late 1990s.
In-line buildings to the north-west are lower, 2-storey, rendered structures, which have plain sandstone surrounds to openings, slate roofs and brick chimneys (only seen externally). An end wall has been removed and part included with the hotel, another part is a separate shop. Although altered and extended these lower buildings may have been part of the earlier Turf Tavern.
Interior
The interior has been altered, although ceiling cornice mouldings, which are retained in parts, define the former entrance-hall, some rooms, and the fireplace positions.  A doorway to right of the entrance-hall accesses the stair to cellar, under the right front room. The position of the original first-floor stair is unclear.  
The entrance-hall once had flanking rooms to front, divided from the two rooms at the rear by a central spine wall, carrying back-to back fireplaces. One of these rooms formerly had good views of the racecourse from a canted bay at the north-west 
The former north-west end wall has been mostly removed by extending into part of the in-line buildings and supporting the first-floor on iron columns. One of these columns has been reused, and originally supported the external gallery. There are recently altered openings into the rear extension under the gallery, such as bars and doorways to kitchen and toilets. A later porch entrance has been made in the south-east elevation.
Access to the first-floor accommodation was not permitted.
References
The present hotel with its canted bay is clearly depicted on the OS first edition map of 1874 with adjoining buildings in-line and a detached "stand" to the north east. It shows the line of the "RACE COURSE" running against the rear of the hotel and a "post" (start/finish) position almost opposite.
This site is shown as the Turf Tavern on the tithe map and apportionment of 1844, when it was occupied by John Finch and owned by Sir William Watkin Wynn. Although there is no indication of a race course shown on the map, the name is indicative.
A 1906 print from a film showing the gallery is published in  Davies, M.G. & Jones, P.(Eds.)  Wrexham Football Club , Images of Sport series, p 34. The original film is stored at the National library of Wales
Palmer states "There were formerly annual races in Wrexham, held on the racecourse behind the Turf Tavern, outside the town. I do not know when they were begun, nor when they were discontinued, but I have found them mentioned in 1818 and 1830. They were resumed August 28th, 1890"  Palmer, A.N. History of the Town of Wrexham, 1893, p 14.
Comment 
It is likely that the first Turf Tavern was built in the early 19th century, before 1844, ideally suited on the turnpike road, just outside the old town, and that the present Turf Hotel was purpose built in the 1860s, designed with views of the races from its canted-bay and gallery. 
There is believed to have been horse racing here since 1807, which was discontinued in 1857 until it resumed again in 1890. The football ground was in use for international matches, when Wales played Scotland in 1877, and it is believed the football club was founded at a meeting in the Turf Hotel during the 1870s.
Geoff Ward, visited, 29/06/2007