Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Old Rose Cottage
Erbistock, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Overton Bridge, Erbistock, Wrexham, designated on 13 February 1995.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 13 February 1995
- Locality
- Overton Bridge
- Community
- Erbistock
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.97867, -2.96321
- Cadw reference
- 15172
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the E side of the A528, 90m N of Overton Bridge.
History
An estate dwellings of late C18/early C19, evident on the 1840 Tithe Map. Part of the Rose Hill Estate.
Exterior
2-storey 4-window, whitewashed brick, gable end stacks, slate roof. Late C18/early C19. Main elevation facing road: dentilled brick cornice, altered 6-panelled door and later C19 porch. Both ground and first floor windows cast iron frames with Gothick tracery, probably C19. Rear elevation much altered with modern extensions and later windows.
Interior
Not accessible at time of survey (October 1994).
Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of late C18/early C19 estate architecture which externally retains much of its original character and for historical associations with the Rose Hill Estate.
Nearby in the register
- Rose Lodge (also known as the Old Post Office)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box beside Rose LodgeCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Overton BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Gwaylod HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.