Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Asney Park Farmhouse
Overton, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 15 March 1994
- Locality
- Overton Bridge
- Community
- Overton
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.98872, -2.95205
- Cadw reference
- 14487
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
To the north of the community, in a loop of the River Dee about 5km NW of the village, approached from a lane running N of the A539 just E of Overton Bridge.
History
Late C18 farmhouse.
Exterior
Brick with slate roof. 2 storeys, with 2-unit main range and long rear wing. Main range has central entrance in added porch flanked by 16-pane sash windows with gauged brick heads. 3x12-pane sash windows above. Plain wood eaves band, which returns to partly pediment the gable. Stacks to rear of main range. Rear wing has central entrance in added porch and 2-light casement windows with single ring cambered heads. Inside, the house retains its original plan, and a staircase with slim plain balusters and turned newels.
Reason for designation
A good example of a late C18 house, with its original plan and some original detail surviving.
Nearby in the register
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- Manor Farmhouse (Also Known As Eyton Manor Farmhouse)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Stable-Block at GwernheylodDomesticunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box beside Rose LodgeCommunicationsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.