85443

 

II  

Designated  

20/10/2005  

20/10/2005  

1 Warren Cottages  

 

Wrexham  

Bronington  

 

The Warren  

349898  

341900  

 

One of a pair of cottages reached by a short private drive on the N side of a minor road between Iscoyd Park and Whhitewell, approximately 650m NE of Whitewell church.  

 

 

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'. Warren Cottages were built in 1866 near the site of a cottage purchased from Sir John Hanmer in 1833.  

 

 

Nos 1-2 Warren Cottages are listed for their special architectural interest as well-preserved C19 Iscoyd Park estate cottages, and for their contribution to the distinctive historic character of the district provided by surviving estate buildings, which together provide a good example of estate-sponsored improvement.