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
19728
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
22/04/1998  
Date of Amendment
22/04/1998  
Name of Property
Wern Farm  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Wrexham  
Community
Minera  
Town
Wrexham  
Locality
The Wern  
Easting
327889  
Northing
350325  
Street Side
E  
Location
Situated on the E side of the B5426, some 700m S of the entrance to Minera Lead Mines and Country Park.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Mid to later C19 farmhouse, not marked on the 1845 Tithe Map.  

Exterior
Farmhouse, whitewashed rubble stone with slate close-eaved roof and rendered brick end stacks, the right stack on stone external chimneybreast. Two-storey, 3-window front with small-paned hornless sashes, those to first floor square 12-pane those below 16-pane. Stone lintels and sills, all ground floor lintels are large single tooled slabs. C20 door and overlight. Right end wall has casement pair to right of stack and door further right, in end wall of rear outshut. Left end has one ground floor small-paned window. Adjoining to left is SW rear wing probably added but in matching style, with rendered end stack. Two-window range of 12-pane hornless sashes. Rear of wing has single-storey lean-to with corrugated iron roof.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved example of mid to later C19 farmhouse of the region, where the late Georgian style persisted relatively late.  

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