Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ice-house to NW of Llwyn Onn Hall Hotel
Abenbury, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llwyn Onn, Abenbury, Wrexham, designated on 12 September 1996.
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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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (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.