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
19724
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/04/1998
Date of Amendment
22/04/1998
Name of Property
Offa View
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Minera
Town
Wrexham
Locality
New Brighton
Easting
327313
Northing
350891
Street Side
Location
Situated in New Brighton towards the NW end of the highest level of buildings on the hillside overlooking Minera.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Pair of houses, now one, built after 1865 as part of the lead-mining community of New Brighton for which 24 plots were sold by the Chester Charities in 1865. 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 until the mid-C18 when a trustee of the charity, Alderman Richardson, promoted lead prospecting. It was so successful that between 1761 and 1781 some £13,000 were paid to the charity in royalties.
Exterior
Pair of semi-detached houses now one. Rubble stone with squared stone quoins, slate roof and brick end stacks. Each house two storeys, double-fronted. Windows are 16-pane hornless sashes with tooled stone sills and lintels. Four panel doors. Ground floor windows and doors have large shaped stone lintels.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved example of a pair of later C19 semi-detached houses connected with the Minera lead mines, historically important with others in this industrial settlement pattern.
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