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
19720
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
22/04/1998  
Date of Amendment
22/04/1998  
Name of Property
Gwylfa  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Wrexham  
Community
Minera  
Town
Wrexham  
Locality
New Brighton  
Easting
327390  
Northing
350803  
Street Side
 
Location
Situated in New Brighton towards the centre of the highest level of houses on the hillside overlooking Minera.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Mine-workers house of c1865, part of New Brighton for which 24 plots were sold in 1865 by the trustees of the Chester Charities. Of the 24 sold, 4 plots were used for pubs. This part of Minera parish known as 'City Lands' was beqeathed by Owen Jones (d1659), a butcher of Chester, to 'the poor of every Company of Merchants and Craftsmen in the City of Chester'. The area was agricultural land until the mid-C18 when a trustee of the charity, Alderman Richardson, encouraged lead prospecting so successfully that between 1761 and 1781 some £13,000 were paid to the charity in royalties.  

Exterior
House, rubble stone with slate close-eaved roof and rendered brick end stacks. Two storeys, double-fronted. Windows are large 16-pane hornless sashes with stone sills. Four panel door with single overlight. Ground floor windows and door have large shaped stone lintels. Single-storey slate-roofed outbuilding to right stepped back from house front. Single-pitch roof, boarded door to extreme left and central C20 window.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved example of a later C19 house connected with the Minera lead mines, historically important with others in this industrial settlement pattern.  

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