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
17452
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
04/01/1991
Date of Amendment
18/10/1996
Name of Property
2 Yew Tree Cottages
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Rossett
Town
Locality
Burton
Easting
335288
Northing
356936
Street Side
S
Location
On south side of B 5102 Llay Road as it begins to ascend Croes Howell Hill. Approx. 1.2 km west of Rossett, at right angles to road.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built in 1881 to the designs of John Douglas, architect, of Chester for Alexander Balfour who lived in nearby Mount Alyn (demolished). One cottage for farm bailiff, the other for use of members of a Liverpool mission. Uninhabited and boarded up at the time of re-survey (1995).
Exterior
Interior
Internal inspection not possible at time of re-survey in November 1995.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with adjacent Outbuilding range at Yew Tree Farm.
Group Description
1 & 2 Yew Tree Cottages
Pair of semi-detached asymmetrical cottages, Vernacular revival style. Ground floor red brick. First floor has roughcast rendering, half-timbered gables, and some tile-hanging to rear. Red tiled roof. Chimneys tall, red-brick, stepped in plan. Frontage to east asymmetrical. North cottage has ground floor bay lit by shallow-arched windows with overhanging half-timbered gable above which is lit by a broad 4-light window. Entrance to north cottage through shallow-arched doorway facing east which has north-facing half-timbered gable overhanging above. South cottage entered through canopied door flanked by shallow-arched windows; first floor has rough-cast above brick band. Dormer windows under sloping roof.
To south, off-centre single storey lean-to with three-light window to right, and round-headed doorway to left, flanked by brick buttresses. At rear, asymmetrical half-timbered gables with overhanging eaves and broad windows. Lean-to service rooms with red tiled roofs. Pyramidal roof over projecting pantry.
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