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
85442
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
20/10/2005
Date of Amendment
20/10/2005
Name of Property
1 Smokey Lane
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Bronington
Town
Locality
Whitewell
Easting
348750
Northing
341845
Street Side
Location
Set back on the N side of a lane approximately 0.9km NW of Whitewell church.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Iscoyd Park was purchased in 1843 by Philip Lake Godsal, a Cheltenham coach builder, an estate of 202 acres (82 hectares) comprising mansion house with park, and cottages and smallholdings. Over subsequent decades farms were acquired from neighbouring landowners, mainly during the ownership of Philip William Godsal, who inherited in 1858 and died in 1896. In 1895 it was reported to the Royal Commission on Land in Wales and Monmouthshire that the Iscoyd Park estate, now expanded to 887 acres (359 hectares), had 9 farms. Of these 'six new farmhouses, bricked and slated, and homesteads to them, have been built new entirely' and 'sixteen cottages and buildings for pigs and cows have been erected'. The latter smallholdings include many that were built on the site of earlier smallholdings.
No 1 Smokey Lane is dated 1867.
Exterior
A 1½-storey cottage of brick with steep tile roof on overhanging eaves, and central brick stack. A dentil band is between storeys. Openings have segmental heads and most windows have original small-pane iron-frame glazing. The gable end front has a boarded door on the R, window on the L, with 2 narrower windows above. Beneath the apex is a freestone tablet inscribed 'PWG 1867'. In the R side wall is an iron-frame window and a replacement window to the R under a square head. The L side wall has 2 narrow windows. In the rear gable end is a lean-to with a boarded door and window, above which is a window in the gable.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as part of a well-preserved C19 smallholding characteristic of the Iscoyd Park estate style, and for its contribution to the distinctive historic character of the district provided by surviving former estate buildings, which together provide a good example of estate-sponsored improvement.
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