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
1695
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/11/1962
Date of Amendment
18/11/2005
Name of Property
Lane Farmhouse
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Maelor South
Town
Locality
Penley
Easting
341388
Northing
340626
Street Side
E
Location
The house faces a farmyard beside a minor road between Penley and Holly Bush, approximately 1km NNW of Penley.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
A mid C18 farmhouse. In the mid C19 a parallel rear wing was added, later extended beyond the gable end of the original house, all of which is shown on the 1873 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A Georgian 2½ storey 5-bay house of hand-moulded brick with concrete-tile roof on dentil eaves, and brick end stacks with moulded caps. The symmetrical front has a plat band between storeys. The central boarded door has a 2-pane overlight under a segmental head. Windows are segmental-headed small-pane cross windows in wooden frames. To the R of the entrance is a C19 small-pane iron-frame basement window. The L gable end is roughcast in the lower storey, evidence of a former lean-to, and has a replacement attic window on the R side. The R gable end has a replacement attic window to the L side.
The parallel rear wing is narrower and lower, also of brick with slate roof on dentil eaves. The rear elevation has a central gable, replacement casement windows in earlier openings, and double half-glazed doors in a former window opening. The R end is later, of a different colour brick, and projects beyond the gable end of the main range. Its entrance is on the N side, a segmental-headed boarded door to the L of which each storey has a replacement 2-light casement window, under a segmental head in the lower storey.
Interior
The main range is centrally planned with stair hall. The kitchen on the L has a chamfered spine beam with run-out stops, and fireplace with a large timber lintel. The parlour on the R side has a finely moulded cross beam. The full-height open-well stair has turned balusters and square newel. Beneath it are brick cellar steps. In the upper storey the rooms R and L have chamfered cross beams, and in the L-hand room box framing is exposed in part in the rear wall. The 2 roof trusses are late C19, with queen posts and collar beams, and iron bolts.
In the rear wing is a closed-string service stair.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a well-preserved Georgian house with C19 additions, retaining external character and interior plan form and detail.
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