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
85455
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
20/10/2005
Date of Amendment
20/10/2005
Name of Property
Farm buildings at Higher Lanes Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Bronington
Town
Locality
Higher Wych
Easting
348052
Northing
342738
Street Side
Location
On the N side of the farmhouse.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Iscoyd Park was purchased in 1843 by Philip Lake Godsal, a Cheltenham coach builder, and comprised an estate of 202 acres (82 hectares) including 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, including Higher Lanes. 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'.
Higher Lanes Farm is dated 1869. The farm buildings are probably contemporary with the house, but the higher section was later extended or rebuilt. They housed a shippon in the lower section, and probably a stable and further livestock accommodation in the higher section.
Exterior
Two ranges placed end-to-end, of brick with tile roofs. The higher lofted section on the L side has a full-height joint to the centre, indicating a later extension or rebuilding of the L side. Two pairs of doors are R and L of this joint, the R-hand below a loading door, with segmental-headed split boarded door further R and boarded opening to the L. The lower shippon is wider and projects beyond the line of the higher section in both elevations. Facing the yard it has 2 split boarded doors flanking a central window in a former doorway.
The rear elevation of the shippon has a central door flanked by windows, and the higher section retains a segmental-headed split boarded door to the L, and corrugated-iron lean-to to its R.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with the farmhouse, and for its overall contribution to the distinctive historic character of the district provided by surviving former Iscoyd Park estate buildings, which together provide a good example of estate-sponsored improvement.
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