85446

 

II  

Designated  

20/10/2005  

20/10/2005  

2 Warren Cottages  

 

Wrexham  

Bronington  

 

The Warren  

349891  

341901  

 

One of a pair of cottages reached by a short private drive on the N side of a minor road between Iscoyd Park and Whhitewell, approximately 650m NE of Whitewell church.  

 

 

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'. Warren Cottages were built in 1866 near the site of a cottage purchased from Sir John Hanmer in 1833.  

 

 

Nos 1-2 Warren Cottages are listed for their special architectural interest as well-preserved C19 Iscoyd Park estate cottages, and for their contribution to the distinctive historic character of the district provided by surviving estate buildings, which together provide a good example of estate-sponsored improvement.  

1-2 Warren Cottages Two 1½-storey cottages placed at right angles to form a T-shaped plan. Of brick, with chequer-work red and white brick to the main elevations and dentil band between storeys, and tile roof on overhanging eaves with a single ridge stack to each cottage. Openings have segmental heads. No 1 has its entrance in the gable end, a studded door on the L side, with 2-light windows to the R and above, incorporating metal casements. A freestone tablet below the apex is inscribed 'PWG 1866'. The 2-window L side wall has 3-light casement windows. Offset to the L side is a timber-framed gable to a 3-light dormer window incorporating metal-framed casements. The R side wall, effectively the back of the cottage, has a lean-to with 3-light window and small-pane iron-frame window on its R side, replacement window to its L. No 2 is built across the end of No 1, forming the upper part of the T. Its gable end front has a studded door on the L, and 2-light windows to the R and above. In the 2-window L side wall are 3-light casements.