Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
2 Mill Terrace
Esclusham, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bersham, Esclusham, Wrexham, designated on 8 December 1995.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 8 December 1995
- Locality
- Bersham
- Community
- Esclusham
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.03570, -3.03563
- Cadw reference
- 16541
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 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Adjacent to Mill House Farmhouse at the western end of Bersham village.
History
A pair of estate cottages, built in 1859 to designs of John Gibson, architect to the Plas Power Estate.
Exterior
Simplified Cottage Orne style. Random, squared rubble, slate roofs with red tile cresting and axial stack. A symmetrically planned pair, with paired advanced central gables and entrances recessed in Gothic arched porches to either side. Each gable has a 2-light mullioned and transomed window to ground floor and single transomed light above, all with latticed panes. Scalloped barge boards to gables.
Reason for designation
Part of a group with Nos 4-6 Mill Terrace.
Listed as a virtually unaltered pair of estate cottages, of particular interest for their association with the Plas Power Estate.
Nearby in the register
- 3 Mill TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 4 Mill TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- Mill House FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- 5 Mill TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.