Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hem House
Rossett, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 18 October 1996
- Locality
- Allington
- Community
- Rossett
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.09471, -2.91541
- Cadw reference
- 17457
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
Located in open countryside to the east of Rossett Road, approached by a private drive and with walled garden to front.
Exterior
C18 2-storey and attic red-brick, front of three bays, the outer two of which are gabled with kneelers. Later additions including lean-to wing to the west. Top storey with painted dummy windows to gable ends. Near flush small-pane cross-frame windows below. Central round-arched entrance with fanlight.
Interior
Inspection not possible at time of re-survey in 1995 but recorded as retaining good staircase and other original internal detail.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a surviving example of an C18 farmhouse.
Nearby in the register
- Cook's BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Cooksbridge FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lodge FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Trevalyn FarmhouseDomestic1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.