Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
1714
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
02/07/1975
Date of Amendment
01/12/1995
Name of Property
Rock Cottage
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Gwersyllt
Town
Locality
Sydallt
Easting
331292
Northing
355289
Street Side
E
Location
Above the road as it goes downhill towards the River Alyn at Cefn y Bedd.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
The house was built c1830.
Exterior
Lined-out render with hipped slate roof; brick axial stacks. 2 storeys, 3-window range with paired rear wings. Central entrance with partly glazed door beneath (new) canopy hood. Flanking windows are floor length small-paned sashes with shallow hoods. Upper windows are 16-pane sashes with slight architraves and continuous sill-bands. Similar windows on each floor in return elevations. Plain eaves band and moulded cast-iron guttering. Some small-paned cast-iron windows to rear.
Interior
Central entrance and stair hall: steeply curved stairs with thin spindles and swept rail; moulded tread-ends. Principal rooms to either side have marble chimney pieces and plaster frieze and cornice: acanthus motifs and vinescroll: panelled shutters to windows.
Reason for designation
The house is a very good and well-preserved example of its type which retains much of its original character including well-detailed interiors.
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