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
1820
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/01/1994
Date of Amendment
31/01/1994
Name of Property
Former Crossing Keeper's Cottage at Croesnewydd North Fork
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Offa
Town
Locality
Easting
332810
Northing
350355
Street Side
Location
Immediately adjacent to the level crossing on the W side of the railway line.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Crossing kepper's cottage. Probably c1846 as part of the original Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Company.
Exterior
Roughly coursed and squared stone with fishscale slate roof. 2 storeyed, with N, E. and W. facing gables, each with ornate fretted bargeboards, and lower gabled wing to S. Entrance in north facing gable, the door recessed in segmentally arched architrave with side lights in stressed painted stone architraves. Similar architraves to renewed 2-light casement window above and in the return of the W gable to the right. Secondary doorway in W gable, with renewed casement window above. E. gable facing the railway tracks has canted bay window to ground floor, and similar casement window above. Central axial stack.
Interior
Reason for designation
A good example of a now-scarce building type, and of the architecture associated with the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Company.
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