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
1540
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
09/06/1952
Date of Amendment
17/07/1996
Name of Property
Holt Hill
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Holt
Town
Locality
Holt
Easting
341008
Northing
354328
Street Side
N
Location
Situated on a prominent hill, off Green Street, overlooking the River Dee.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
C17 house, refronted and enlarged in the C18. The steep pitch of the roof and depth of the gable ridge coping suggest that this section may have originally been thatched. The house was for many years the residence of the Crew family who owned a large acreage of land lying to the west. Norden mentions a house on this site in his survey of 1620.
Exterior
Front elevation: Early-mid C18, red brick 2 storeys with high parapet, partially obscured by ivy. Sandstone string courses to first floor and below parapet. 4x 12-pane sash windows to ground floor, 4 similar windows to first floor. Left hand return gable shows C18 refronting is one room deep throughout the main facade. 1x12-pane sash window to first floor, C20 door to ground floor. To rear doubled gabled range marks part of the C17 house. Brick with C20 metal windows, renewed slate roof.
Interior
Interior was not accessible at time of re-survey (March 1996).
Reason for designation
Listed for the special interest of the C18 remodelling of an earlier house.
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