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
1818
Building Number
9
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/06/1980
Date of Amendment
31/01/1994
Name of Property
Dodman's
Address
9 Town Hill
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Offa
Town
Locality
Easting
333475
Northing
350183
Street Side
Location
Forms part of a continuously developed building line on the S of the street, the plot stretching back to Collage Street to the rear.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built as a house, but latterly in commercial use, with workshops on rear wing. Probably late C16 or early C17, refronted early C19, with shop front inserted later C19 and since renewed.
Exterior
Render over brick to frontage, timber-framed to rear, with slate roofs throughout. 2 storeyed, 2 bay range parallel to street with long rear wing. Shop front with central doorway, and passage entry to the left. 2 upper windows, now fixed lights with small panes. Plain parapet to eaves, with steeply pitched roof beyond.
Interior
Close studding and cambered trusses exposed in gable walls, with traces of wall-painting visible on some of the timbers. Square panelled framing also exposed in rear wing.
Reason for designation
An important survivor of late medieval Wrexham, which forms part of a historically significant group together with Nos 5 and 7 Town Hill.
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