Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Homestead
Overton, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 15 March 1994
- Locality
- Knolton Bryn
- Community
- Overton
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.95107, -2.94500
- Cadw reference
- 14480
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
In a narrow plot of land alongside a lane W of the main settlement of Knolton Bryn.
History
Small-holders cottage. Early C19.
Exterior
Brick with slate roof, the building comprises small 2-unit, 2-storeyed cottage with small byre under the same roof. Cottage has doorway to right of centre, with flanking windows renewed in original openings, with single ring cambered brick heads. Upper windows also renewed in original openings, under the eaves. End wall stacks. Byre forms a single build with small window alongside, and loft entry above, all with single ring cambered brick heads. Diamond pattern vent to loft in front elevation.
Reason for designation
A good surviving example of a small-holders cottage, of a type once common in Overton, but not rarely surviving in an original condition.
Nearby in the register
- Top FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Mile Post opposite drive to QueensbridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Knolton Mission ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Byre/Stable Range at Gwalia FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.