Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ash Grove
Overton, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 15 March 1994
- Locality
- Knolton
- Community
- Overton
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.96108, -2.94445
- Cadw reference
- 14473
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
Towards the junction of the B5069 and the A528 Overton to Ellesmere Road.
History
Small county house, built c1830.
Exterior
Ashlar faced to entrance and garden fronts, the rear elevations brick, with hipped slate roof. 2 storeyed, almost square in plan, with central entrance. Entrance bay is slightly recessed, with Tuscan portico, and panelled door with side lights and overlight. The right hand bay projects further than the left hand bay, and has a hipped gabled roof. 12-pane sash windows to either side of entrance, those to ground floor floor-length. Casement window with margin lights over the entrance. Continuous sill band to first floor. Cornice and blocking course. 4-window range garden front to east, with 12-pane sash windows, floor length to ground floor. Rear elevations brick with painted stone dressings, and single storeyed late C19 extension to west, housing billiard room.
Interior
Central entrance hall divided by tripartite architrave from rear stair hall, which has stone staircase with cast iron balusters. Some original detail (plaster cornices and joinery including internal window shutters) survives.
Reason for designation
A good example of an early C19 small country house, one of a series which represents an important element in Overton’s C19 development.
Nearby in the register
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- Gwalia FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Mile Post opposite drive to QueensbridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- GwaliaDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.