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
20271
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/07/1998
Date of Amendment
29/07/1998
Name of Property
Nos 1 and 2 Home Farm Cottages
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Chirk
Town
Wrexham
Locality
Chirk Castle
Easting
326634
Northing
338322
Street Side
Location
Home Farm Cottages are a pair of estate cottages, lying ENE of Home Farm and facing E over the former pool.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built in 1874 to accommodate estate workers, and restored by the National Trust, including demolition of inappropriate extensions.
Exterior
A pair of bilaterally symmetrical cottages. Rubble stonework with a red tile roof. Two storeys, each cottage is of 2 bays with a central entrance, a boarded door within an open timber framed and gabled porch. Three-light timber window to the main living room, elsewhere similar 2-light windows, all with stone lintels. The inner bay of both cottages is combined under a large gable, containing the datestone. The outer bay of each is under a smaller gable. Tall brick stacks.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a picturesque and well restored pair of estate cottages, a significant component of a group of estate buildings at the Home Farm of Chirk Castle Estate.
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