Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Smithfield House
Holt, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 9 June 1952
- Locality
- Holt
- Community
- Holt
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.07666, -2.88374
- Cadw reference
- 1539
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
Situated on the corner of Castle Street and Wrexham Road, set back behind front garden bordered by iron railings.
History
Former farmhouse. Smithfield House appears on the 1843 Tithe map.
Exterior
Main house mid-late C17 with later alterations. Main house: 3 storeys, handmade red brick with red sandtone quoins and sandstone facing to base of street facade and one gable end. Stone shaped kneelers and gable coping. Later slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rebuilt brick stack. Painted stone porch with moulded pediment on consoles, later door. Ground and first floors each contain 3 later three-light casement windows with brick flat arches. Upper storey has 3 two-light casements. To right, red brick extension with slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles. Two-light casement window to ground floor. Left return gable wall sandstone facing to eaves level, single C20 uPVC window. To rear 2 storey brick extension, slate roof.
Interior
Interior was not accessible at time of re-survey (March 1996).
Reason for designation
Listed as a surviving example of a mid-late C17 farmhouse.
Nearby in the register
- Puddleducks (including forecourt walls and railings)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Presbyterian Church (including forecourt walls and railings)Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Former Baptist Chapel (including forecourt walls, gates and railings)Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Strawberry Pickers' Barracks at Bellis' FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.