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
20253
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
29/07/1998  
Date of Amendment
29/07/1998  
Name of Property
Plas-Offa  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Wrexham  
Community
Chirk  
Town
Wrexham  
Locality
Whitehurst  
Easting
328176  
Northing
340531  
Street Side
SW  
Location
The farmhouse stands on the SE side of Offa's Dyke where it crosses the main Holyhead Road. The farm buildings range to the W.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
The farmhouse was probably built c1840-50.  

Exterior
The house is of rubble stonework with slate roofs between coped gables on moulded kneelers, and prominent gable stacks. Two storeys with cellars. Two parallel ranges, the elevation of each being of 3 bays with a central entrance; that to the NE within a wide porch with a pitched roof. Panelled door with glazed side windows. Iron casement windows in timber mullioned and transomed timber frames, all under segmental heads formed with stepped ashlar lintels, 3-light to the side bays, 2 above the door. The rear elevation, facing SE, has a framed and battened door with a glazed overlight, set under a flat moulded stone hood on brackets. The conspicuous chimneys are also of stone, multiply corbelled, and have diagonally set flues.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Included as a very prominent and finely constructed farmhouse of the mid C19.  

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