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
14480
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/03/1994
Date of Amendment
15/03/1994
Name of Property
The Homestead
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Overton
Town
Locality
Knolton Bryn
Easting
336605
Northing
339717
Street Side
Location
In a narrow plot of land alongside a lane W of the main settlement of Knolton Bryn.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Small-holders cottage. Early C19.
Exterior
Brick with slate roof, the building comprises small 2-unit, 2-storeyed cottage with small byre under the same roof. Cottage has doorway to right of centre, with flanking windows renewed in original openings, with single ring cambered brick heads. Upper windows also renewed in original openings, under the eaves. End wall stacks. Byre forms a single build with small window alongside, and loft entry above, all with single ring cambered brick heads. Diamond pattern vent to loft in front elevation.
Interior
Reason for designation
A good surviving example of a small-holders cottage, of a type once common in Overton, but not rarely surviving in an original condition.
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