Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Outbuildings attached to rear of Fairfield
Overton, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 15 March 1994
- Community
- Overton
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.96772, -2.93375
- Cadw reference
- 14451
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
Opposite the corner with Millwood Rise.
History
House, built c1830.
Exterior
Flemish bond brickwork with pale headers, and steep hipped roof with axial stack to centre rear, and secondary (added) stack against right hand gable. 2 storeys, 3 window range with central entrance. Panelled door with radial fanlight beneath canopy; 12-pane sash windows with flat arched painted stone heads. Late C19 or early C20 extensions to the rear. A short boundary wall links the house with a stable range which is probably contemporary with it.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved example of a substantial middle-class house, typical of Overton’s early C19 development.
Nearby in the register
- FairfieldDomesticunder 1 mi
- CintraDomesticunder 1 mi
- Kew CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- FerndaleCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.