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.
Date of Designation
08/12/1995
Date of Amendment
08/12/1995
Name of Property
2 Mill Terrace
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Location
Adjacent to Mill House Farmhouse at the western end of Bersham village.
History
A pair of estate cottages, built in 1859 to designs of John Gibson, architect to the Plas Power Estate.
Exterior
Simplified Cottage Orne style. Random, squared rubble, slate roofs with red tile cresting and axial stack. A symmetrically planned pair, with paired advanced central gables and entrances recessed in Gothic arched porches to either side. Each gable has a 2-light mullioned and transomed window to ground floor and single transomed light above, all with latticed panes. Scalloped barge boards to gables.
Reason for designation
Part of a group with Nos 4-6 Mill Terrace.
Listed as a virtually unaltered pair of estate cottages, of particular interest for their association with the Plas Power Estate.
Group Description
2 & 3 Mill Terrace
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