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
85492
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
20/10/2005
Date of Amendment
20/10/2005
Name of Property
Sniddlebog Cottage
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Bronington
Town
Locality
The Warren
Easting
349951
Northing
341808
Street Side
Location
Set back on the S side of a minor road between Iscoyd Park and Whitewell, approximately 550m NE 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 present Sniddlebog was built in the second half of the C19 on the site of a 'croft' purchased from Sir John Hanmer in 1833. It is therefore one of several cases where a late C19 smallholding can be shown to perpetuate an older tradition. The cottage is shown on the 1873 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A 1½-storey brick cottage with steep tile roof on overhanging eaves, and central brick stack. Openings have mostly segmental heads. In its gable-end front is a boarded door on the L side, and 2-light attic window. In the R side wall is a small-pane iron-frame window to the L and narrower 2-light casement to the R. The L side wall has a similar iron-frame window, and a lean-to on the L side with small-pane side window, boarded door and inserted window to its R. The rear gable end has an iron-frame window and 2-light casement above.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a well-preserved C19 cottage characteristic of the Iscoyd Park estate style, and for its contribution to the distinctive historic character of the district provided by surviving estate buildings, which together provide a good example of estate-sponsored improvement.
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