Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
14458
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/03/1994
Date of Amendment
15/03/1994
Name of Property
Pen Dyffryn
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Overton
Town
Locality
Easting
337261
Northing
341370
Street Side
Location
On the edge of the village, above the steep slope of the valley of the Dee, set back from the road in tree-lined grounds.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built as a private house c1830 (and shown on the Tithe Map of 1838), but possibly incorporating some elements of an earlier building on the site. The hymn writer Mrs Maude and her family lived here in the later C19 and early C20.
Exterior
Brick with slate roof. 2 storeys, with a main block of 3 bays with central entrance, and a rear service wing incorporating coach house and arched entry into rear stable yard. Stable wing encloses courtyard to rear of house. Entrance front has central doorway in latticed wood porch with swept leaded roof. Moulded architrave to doorway. Squared tripartite bay window to its right. 3 similar sash windows above. A single storeyed extension to the left was added in 1943. Eastern elevation has small triangular oriel window in upper storey, then 2 window range service wing set back. Coach house block adjoins this wing to rear, with segmental archway leading to rear yard. Stable block in yard partly built out of red sandstones blocks suggesting that it is built around an earlier building on the site. It includes a small single unit cottage, with tiny angles fireplace.
Interior
Central entrance hall divided by moulded plaster arch with staircase towards rear. Turned balusters with swept rail to staircase. Reeded doorcases throughout. Several original decorative cast iron fireplaces survive in upper rooms.
Reason for designation
A good early C19 house, of particular interest for the survival of its service accommodation.
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