Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Circular Privy at Green Farm
Gresford, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Gresford, Wrexham, designated on 3 June 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 3 June 1996
- Locality
- Gresford
- Community
- Gresford
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.08869, -2.97810
- Cadw reference
- 17673
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 behind Green Farm farmhouse set into a wall which divides the farmhouse garden from the farmyard
History
Green Farm was substantially rebuilt in 1911 and this former privy relates to the early C19 farm buildings which were in the picturesque style of the Trevalyn Estate buildings at Marford, which suggests the farm may have had associations with the estate.
Exterior
Brick with some traces of render, slate roof, circular plan. Opposed doors, that to the house side with a boarded door in an arched opening, that to the yard similar without a door. On the house side there is a small opening with a pointed head and Gothick cast-iron intersecting glazing bars. The corresponding opening on the yard side is blocked.
Interior
A brick wall divides the house side from the yard side.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of an early C19 detached privy, now a relatively rare building type, designed to provide separate accommodation for the owner and his farmworkers.
Nearby in the register
- AchillDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- No 3 of 5 Graves in the Graveyard to NW of All Saints ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- No 4 of 5 Graves in the Graveyard to NW of All Saints ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.