Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Apple Store at Wynn Hall
Penycae, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Penycae, Wrexham, designated on 15 January 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 15 January 1996
- Community
- Penycae
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.99540, -3.05851
- Cadw reference
- 16847
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
Entered via a former byre in the former farmyard immediately SE of Wynn Hall.
History
There is no conclusive dating evidence for the structure, which is incorporated into heavily rebuilt shippons in a farmyard in which several of the buildings carry late C18 dates. It is likely to be late C18 or early C19, and its location at the edge of a partially walled orchard, suggests its original use as an apple store.
Exterior
The building is largely below ground level, and the superstructure is heavily overgrown, but it appears to have taken the form of a rubble structure with vaulted roof surmounted by an insulating layer of earth covered by stone flagged roof. Doorway in rubble wall facing onto farmyard, and a small window in the opposite gable, opening onto the orchard.
Interior
A long single chamber, with simple tunnel vaulted roof.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a rare surviving example of an apple store.
Nearby in the register
- Wynn HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gardden CampHillfortunder 1 mi
- Offa's Dyke: Y Gardden Camp SectionLinear Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Offa's Dyke: Section SW from Tatham BridgeLinear Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.