Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
20253
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/07/1998
Date of Amendment
29/07/1998
Name of Property
Plas-Offa
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Chirk
Town
Wrexham
Locality
Whitehurst
Easting
328176
Northing
340531
Street Side
SW
Location
The farmhouse stands on the SE side of Offa's Dyke where it crosses the main Holyhead Road. The farm buildings range to the W.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
The farmhouse was probably built c1840-50.
Exterior
The house is of rubble stonework with slate roofs between coped gables on moulded kneelers, and prominent gable stacks. Two storeys with cellars. Two parallel ranges, the elevation of each being of 3 bays with a central entrance; that to the NE within a wide porch with a pitched roof. Panelled door with glazed side windows. Iron casement windows in timber mullioned and transomed timber frames, all under segmental heads formed with stepped ashlar lintels, 3-light to the side bays, 2 above the door. The rear elevation, facing SE, has a framed and battened door with a glazed overlight, set under a flat moulded stone hood on brackets. The conspicuous chimneys are also of stone, multiply corbelled, and have diagonally set flues.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a very prominent and finely constructed farmhouse of the mid C19.
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