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
627
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
04/01/1966
Date of Amendment
29/07/1998
Name of Property
Smithy at Whitehurst Gate and House attached
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Chirk
Town
Wrexham
Locality
Whitehurst
Easting
328376
Northing
340475
Street Side
N
Location
The building stands on the NW angle of the road junction with the B5605 Newbridge Road
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
The building is reputed to be that of Mr Davies, a smith employed by Thomas Telford during his work on the Holyhead Road from 1819 onwards. The smithy has a keystone inscribed '1825 Davies' over the forge opening, probably reset.
Exterior
Stone with slated roof and stone stacks. Two storeys, two abutting 'L'-shaped buildings with left gables to the main road, the more westerly having the door and dormer window over with cut bargeboards. Gable stacks. The easterly building is set lower, and its E arm contains the smithy. Modern stained timber windows to the wings. The smithy has an open front to the B5605, a segmental arch with keystone inscribed 1825 Davies, now glazed.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a prominent building with associations with Telford and the realignment of the Holyhead Road, still retaining an appropriately robust rustic architectural character of the early C19 despite later alterations.
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