Hem House

Rossett, Wrexham, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Allington, Rossett, Wrexham, designated on 18 October 1996.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Hem House, Rossett, Wrexham, with a pin at the register's coordinates — Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1930 · OS Popular Edition 1919-1947 (National Library of Scotland)

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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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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