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
87507
Building Number
1
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/11/2006
Date of Amendment
30/11/2006
Name of Property
House, including iron forecourt railings.
Address
1 Wrexham road
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Overton
Town
Locality
Easting
337271
Northing
341961
Street Side
Location
Near east end of S side of Wrexham Road.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Row of cottages with Gothic details built around 1800 for the Bryn-y-Pys Estate. The right hand end formerly the village smithy. Overton’s famous double Grand National winner (1918 and 1919) Poethlyn, was bred by the Peels of Bryn-y-Pys, and shod at the smithy. Some first floor Gothic windows reinstated at The Old Smithy in 2003.
Exterior
Interior
Reason for designation
Early C19 row of small cottages and former smithy with well-preserved character, part of an important group of buildings at the N end of Overton High Street. Group value with the similar listed Dispensary Row almost opposite.
Group Description
Nos.1-3 Wrexham Road
Two-storey row with five first floor windows; outshut rears (later rear extensions). Brick with slate roofs. Five rectangular brick chimneys.
Nos 1 and 2 are each single unit cottages with doorway to the R and windows aligned on each floor. Steep 2-centred arches to doorways which have boarded doors; windows with round-arched heads, enclosing casement glazing with 2 Gothic lights.
No 3, The Old Smithy, consists of 2 sections, to L, a cottage as Nos 1 and 2, and to R, a 2-window section with first floor windows and doorway as before. The boarded door has impressions from branding irons including “PEEL” for owners of Bryn-y-Pys. To its R, a window with 3 Gothic lights.
Right return has, at first floor level, one window as front, and a small 2-light Gothic window; on ground floor, broad segmental archway enclosing Gothic doorway to R, and 2-light Gothic window to L.
The group is set back from road behind narrow forecourts with iron railings and gates.
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