Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
White Cottage
Overton, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 16 November 1962
- Community
- Overton
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.97061, -2.93480
- Cadw reference
- 1682
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
Between the White Horse Public House and Nos.17-18.
History
Small house, dated 1739, but probably representing the partial rebuilding of an earlier building.
Exterior
Painted brick with plain tiled roof. One and a half storeys, 2-unit plan with central entrance backing onto stack. Flanking windows are 9-pane flush framed sashes with moulded keystones (one of which carries the date) in cambered heads. Gabled dormers above with horizontal sliding sash windows. Plain moulded eaves.
Reason for designation
A good example of an early C18 vernacular building, probably incorporating elements of an earlier structure, which forms part of an important group of buildings on High Street.
Nearby in the register
- 18 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- White Horse Public HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- 17 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Metcalfe BuildingCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.