Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Timber-framed building in yard at Croesfoel Farm
Esclusham, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 8 December 1995
- Locality
- Rhostyllen
- Community
- Esclusham
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.02653, -3.03204
- Cadw reference
- 16573
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 1795 "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).
Cadw's description
Location
Forms the E side of the former farmyard to the rear of the house.
History
Croesfoel was the home of the Davies brothers, gatesmiths, in the late C17- early C18, and their smithy survived adjacent to the present house, until it was demolished for road widening in 1967. The farmbuilding pre-dates the present house, and may be survivor from the Davies' period
Exterior
Timber-framed in small square panels with brick panel infil (partially renewed), and rubble in gable wall. Slate roof. Various small openings to first floor, and doorway towards centre of ground floor in W elevation.
Reason for designation
Listed as part of a group with the farmhouse, as a well-preserved timber-framed farm building, and for the special historical interest of the association of the site with the Davies brothers.
Nearby in the register
- Croesfoel FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gate Piers at Hafod-y-Bwch HallAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Croes-Foel Round BarrowRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Timber-framed Barn in Yard at Hafod-y-Bwch HallAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.