Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
19722
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/04/1998
Date of Amendment
22/04/1998
Name of Property
Maelor House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Minera
Town
Wrexham
Locality
New Brighton
Easting
327285
Northing
350927
Street Side
Location
Situated in New Brighton towards the NW end of the highest level of buildings on the hillside overlooking Minera.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
House built c1865 as part of the lead mining community of New Brighton, for which 24 plots were sold by the Chester Charities in 1865. This part of Minera parish known as 'City Lands' was bequeathed by Owen Jones (d1659), a butcher of Chester, to 'the poor of every Company of Merchants and Craftsmen in the City of Chester'. The area was agricultural until the mid-C18 when a trustee of the charity, Alderman Richardson, promoted lead prospecting. It was so successful that between 1761 and 1781 some £13,000 were paid to the charity in royalties.
Exterior
House, rubble stone, slate close-eaved roof and brick end stacks. Two storeys, double-fronted; originally free-standing, Maelor View (q.v.) later added to right. Windows are 4-pane hornless sashes with tooled stone lintels and sills. Four panel door with single overlight. Ground floor windows and door have large shaped stone lintels. Original windows were presumably 16-pane sashes as elsewhere in New Brighton.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved example of a later C19 house connected with the Minera lead mines, historically important with others in this industrial settlement pattern.
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