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
86968
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
18/11/2005  
Date of Amendment
18/11/2005  
Name of Property
Rhyd-y-cyffin Farmhouse  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Wrexham  
Community
Maelor South  
Town
 
Locality
Penley  
Easting
340652  
Northing
341846  
Street Side
N  
Location
To the W of the junction with Hollybush Lane, approximately 2.5km NNW of Penley.  

Description


Broad Class
 
Period
 

History
A Gredington estate house of the mid C19, replacing an earlier house shown on the 1837 Tithe map.  

Exterior
A 2-storey 2-window house with integral rear wing; hand-moulded chequerwork Flemish-bond brick, slate roof on dentil eaves and brick stacks, partly rebuilt. Central boarded door under a gabled canopy. Windows are 3-light casements, beneath segmental brick heads in the lower storey, wooden lintels in the upper storey, all with moulded-brick sills. In the R gable end is a segmental-headed 2-light window lower R. The L gable end is continuous with the rear wing. This has 2-light casement windows, smaller in the upper storey. Added lean-to on gable end of wing, and another against its rear wall, housing a pantry with a segmental-headed window with metal gauze, below a 2-light window. In the rear of the main range is a 2-light upper-storey window on the L side. The L gable end of the house has a lean-to of weatherboards and corrugated-iron roof over a well, inside which is a boarded door.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved C19 estate farmhouse of definite architectural character and distinctive local brickwork, and forming a strong farm group with the multi-purpose farm building.  

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