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
19727
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/04/1998
Date of Amendment
22/04/1998
Name of Property
Wern Cottages
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Minera
Town
Wrexham
Locality
The Wern
Easting
327787
Northing
350783
Street Side
E
Location
Situated just E of the B5426 some 200m S of the entrance to the Minera Lead Mines and Country Park.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Pair of later C19 cottages, most probably built to house workers from the nearby Minera lead mines. Not marked on the 1845 Tithe Map.
Exterior
Pair of houses, squared sandstone rubble with slate close-eaved roof, overhanging on gables. Two square brick ridge stracks. Two storeys, symmetrical pair each with outer gabled crosswing projecting slightly. 4-window range overall, hornless small-paned sashes with tooled stone lintels and sills. Centre has 2 x 9-pane sashes over 2 16-pane sashes. Crosswings vary slightly, left wing has 16-pane sash each floor set slightly to right of centre and half-glazed door with overlight to left. Right wing has 16-pane sash to first floor left of centre, but has similar door and overlight below, with 16-pane sash to right. Windowless side walls, N crosswing is longer than that to S. There is a 2-storey lean-to range behind centre with double front offset to right, 2 casement pairs under eaves, over window, door and window with cambered red brick heads.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved example of a pair of later C19 cottages probably built to house workers from the nearby historically important Minera lead mines.
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