Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Burton Buildings
Offa, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Offa, Wrexham, designated on 31 January 1994.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 31 January 1994
- Community
- Offa
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.04388, -2.99539
- Cadw reference
- 1764
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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)
- 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
Towards the bottom of Bridge Street.
History
Shop and appartment building, dated 1896.
Exterior
Ruabon brick with terracotta dressings and slate roof. 3 storeyed, 5 window range, with advanced pedimented central bay housing entrance to upper floor accommodation, flanked by 2 shop fronts. Original shop fronts survive, with recessed entrance dividing the window space asymmetrically. Windows have segmental angle brackets carried on corbels, the larger windows divided by a central slim mullion, and small leaded upper lights. Terracotta brackets each side of fascia, which is surmounted by enriched terracotta cornice. Central entrance has 6-panelled door with fanlight in segmental archway surmounted by canopied hood carried on scrolled brackets. Name of building in relief on frieze above. Outer paired mullioned and transomed windows to upper floors, the leaded upper with coloured glass. Continuous moulded sill bands. Similar transomed window in stressed architrave over the doorway, and 2-pane sash in central 2nd storey window. Enriched terracotta frieze over first floor, and foliate panels forming aprons of upper storey. Terracotta eaves cornice continues to stress central pediment which is surmounted by a ball finial. End wall and axial stacks, with corbelled caps.
Reason for designation
Listed as a fine example of C19 commercial building design employing locally produced materials, and surviving intact.
Nearby in the register
- 1 Chapel StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Cambrian Vaults Public HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- Pen-y-Bryn Welsh Baptist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- 4 Chapel StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.