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
20217
Building Number
2
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/07/1998
Date of Amendment
29/07/1998
Name of Property
2 Hand Terrace
Address
2 Hand Terrace
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Chirk
Town
Wrexham
Locality
Chirk
Easting
329072
Northing
337824
Street Side
E
Location
The terrace fronts the Holyhead Road, immediately N of the Hand Hotel.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
The terrace of estate workers cottages was built by Chirk Castle estate in c1820-1825 for Charlotte Myddleton-Biddulph. Some later alterations.
Exterior
Door altered, with glazed upper panel.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of estate cottages retaining original detailing, built with an apt sense of scale and forming a picturesque composition, carefully fitted into the existing fabric of Chirk.
Group Description
A terrace of 7 estate workers cottages, built of brick, roughcasted, with slate roofs. Each one storey and attic, single bay. The terrace has 3 forward wings containing cottages 1, 4 and 7, with Nos 2 and 3 between the centre and S wing, and 5 and 6 at the N. Entrances are set in the recessed sections, under a continuous open slated verandah, returning part-way up the wings. Gothic pointed arched boarded doors in heavily moulded frames, and 2-light paned windows, also with pointed heads. The wings have canted paned timber windows. One first floor raised and gabled dormer. Cogged brick eaves to the canted bays. In the N section the doors are interchanged with the windows, as compared with the S. To the rear all have various later extensions, and windows have been altered.
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