Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
2nd outbuilding to Gwydyr House
Overton, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 15 March 1994
- Locality
- Overton
- Community
- Overton
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.96930, -2.93454
- Cadw reference
- 14446
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Abuts the pavement at the corner of Pen-y-llan Street and High Street.
History
C19 boundary wall with 2 former outbuildings, perhaps originally stabling to the adjacent Gwydyr House, but now both in use as shops/offices.
Exterior
The wall is brick with 2 distinctive bands of headers, and divided by pilasters with moulded caps and raking finials. Curved brick plinth above dentilled cornice. The 2 buildings are symmetrically planned and appear to be integrally built with the wall: they are single storeyed, with gables facing the street. Both are also brick (the gable wall rendered in the butcher’s shop to the left) with red plain tiled roofs, and have elaborate treatment of the gables, with moulded kneelers to copings, and squat finial at apex: these details echo those on Gwydyr House, suggesting that they were built to serve it. Openings are largely renewed, but an oculus survives in the apex of the right hand building.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value.
Nearby in the register
- Gwydyr House (former RS & P Garden Machinery Specialists)Domesticunder 1 mi
- 1st Outbuilding to Gwydyr HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Lloyd's Bank PremisesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Wall with two former OutbuildingsDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.