Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ice-house to NW of Llwyn Onn Hall Hotel
Abenbury, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 12 September 1996
- Locality
- Llwyn Onn
- Community
- Abenbury
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.03808, -2.95887
- Cadw reference
- 17275
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 to the rear of the former farm buildings to Llwyn Onn Hall Hotel which is accessed from the Cefn Road opposite Abenbury Road. The ice-house is semi-submerged on gently rising ground with a view towards Cefn Park.
History
Late C18 or C19 ice-house to the former Llwyn Onn Hall, home of the Jones, and subsequently the Parry-Jones, family who claimed descendance from Tudor Trefor.
Exterior
Red brick ice-house with barrel-vaulted entrance leading to submerged rectangular ice-chamber.
Reason for designation
Listed as a rare surviving example of this building type and for group value with Llwyn Onn Hall Hotel.
Nearby in the register
- Llwyn Onn Hall HotelDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pavilion including attached Skittle Alley at Cefn ParkDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cefn Park (including attached stableyard range to N)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Cefn Park LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.