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
1676
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/11/1962
Date of Amendment
20/10/2005
Name of Property
Henrwst
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Bronington
Town
Locality
Higher Wych
Easting
349879
Northing
343034
Street Side
Location
On the E side of a minor road between Higher Wych and Redbrook, approximately 550m S of Higher Wych hamlet.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
A C17 timber-framed house, probably originally L-shaped and 1½ storeys. It was subsequently raised to 2 storeys, and later altered by rebuilding part of the front range and the rear range in brick. It was owned by the Hanmer estate in 1848, when it was a 56-acre farm. It was subsequently purchased by the Iscoyd Park estate and was latterly a smallholding with smithy. It was sold by the estate in the late C20 and was modernised and extended in the 1980s. During this modernisation, some original timber was re-used in the rear wing, including re-use of a chamfered cross beam as a fireplace lintel.
Exterior
A small 2-unit 2-storey house, the front range of which is mainly timber framed, with brick rear wing, and a further 2-storey wing projecting on the L side, added in the 1980s, which now forms the main entrance to the house. The older part has renewed coursed sandstone sill below the box framing, in the L gable end of which the original roof pitch is visible. Windows are recent insertions. The gable end has a 2-light windows in each storey. The 2-window front has 2-light windows in the timber-framed section and 3-light windows in the brick section on the R side. The rear wing also has windows in modern openings.
Interior
The original plan is uncertain because the rear wing was subsequently rebuilt and later modernised, but the front range comprises 2 unequal rooms with timber-framed partition, suggesting hall and parlour. Integral with the partition is a truss with crown and queen posts. The timber framing of the rear wall of the original house survives internally. On its L side is a gable proving the existence of an original rear wing. Like the front range, it also incorporates evidence of heightening to 2 storeys, and it has a collar-beam truss.
Reason for designation
Listed, notwithstanding alteration and additions, as a C17 timber-framed house retaining significant original fabric.
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