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
1655
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/11/1962
Date of Amendment
15/11/2005
Name of Property
The Dukes
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Hanmer
Town
Locality
Horseman's Green
Easting
343698
Northing
341018
Street Side
Location
On the N side of a minor road approximately 1km WSW of Horseman's Green.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Originally probably a lobby-entry house with cross wing. The 1873 Ordnance Survey shows the present entrance in the centre of the main range, and also shows that a rear wing had been added (dated 1859 on a doorway lintel).
Exterior
A 2-storey timber-framed house with hand-moulded brick nogging and slate roof. It has a broad brick stack, with narrower rebuilding in the C19, to the L of centre, and C19 brick stack to the R end. The house comprises main range and a short cross wing. The 2-window main range has a central boarded door with glazed panel (a probable blocked original entrance to the L in line with the stack is obscured by vegetation), and mid C20 3-light steel-framed casement windows. The cross wing has much renewed framing, and 3-light wood-framed casement windows replaced in original openings in each storey. The L side wall of the wing has a single inserted window lower L and the rear gable end has renewed brick nogging, 2-light upper-storey window and two 1-light windows below.
The R-hand gable end of the main range was rebuilt in brick in the C19. The rear of the main range has three 2-light windows in the upper storey above an added C19 lean-to painted white, with French doors. Further R is the rear wing of 1859. It has a replacement boarded door with an inserted 3-light window to its L and a segmental-headed small-pane window to its R. The upper storey has two 2-light windows. The gable end of the wing has a single inserted casement window upper R, and in the rear 3-light and 2-light windows, one of which is under an original segmental head.
Interior
In the 2-unit main range, the hall on the L side has a large fireplace lintel and cornice, and a re-used spine beam. The room to the R also has a chamfered spine beam. The parlour in the cross wing has a cross beam on a moulded bracket.
Reason for designation
Listed as a sub-medieval regional house retaining original fabric and much of its original plan form, and of definite vernacular character.
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