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
620
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
04/01/1966
Date of Amendment
29/07/1998
Name of Property
Barc-du, also known as Sawmill Cottage
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Chirk
Town
Wrexham
Locality
Llwyn-y-cil
Easting
327763
Northing
339118
Street Side
NW
Location
The cottage lies on the approach driveway to New Hall.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
The building is of the C16 or C17, near the site of a forming fulling mill recorded in 1668, and was, until c1910, the cottage attached to the sawmill for Chirk Castle. It is of 2 rooms, with a large external stone stack to the principal living room. Roof space converted to an attic room.
Exterior
Timber framed cottage; single storey with attic, infilled with whitewashed panels, and a stone frontage probably replacing framing on the S side. Slate roof. The framing is 2 square panels high and 8 panels long, and the stone front has a central boarded door within an open C20 timber gabled porch. Two-unit plan. Paned timber windows to either side and a small gabled dormer. Small windows to the rear. The roof continues over the shoulder of the large gable stack. Exposed collar and queen strut roof on the E gable end.
Interior
Not accessible at the time of inspection.
Reason for designation
Included as a rare example of the smaller vernacular timber framed cottage.
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