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
1714
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
02/07/1975  
Date of Amendment
01/12/1995  
Name of Property
Rock Cottage  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Wrexham  
Community
Gwersyllt  
Town
 
Locality
Sydallt  
Easting
331292  
Northing
355289  
Street Side
E  
Location
Above the road as it goes downhill towards the River Alyn at Cefn y Bedd.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
The house was built c1830.  

Exterior
Lined-out render with hipped slate roof; brick axial stacks. 2 storeys, 3-window range with paired rear wings. Central entrance with partly glazed door beneath (new) canopy hood. Flanking windows are floor length small-paned sashes with shallow hoods. Upper windows are 16-pane sashes with slight architraves and continuous sill-bands. Similar windows on each floor in return elevations. Plain eaves band and moulded cast-iron guttering. Some small-paned cast-iron windows to rear.  

Interior
Central entrance and stair hall: steeply curved stairs with thin spindles and swept rail; moulded tread-ends. Principal rooms to either side have marble chimney pieces and plaster frieze and cornice: acanthus motifs and vinescroll: panelled shutters to windows.  

Reason for designation
The house is a very good and well-preserved example of its type which retains much of its original character including well-detailed interiors.  

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