Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
3 Church Street
Offa, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 16 June 1980
- Community
- Offa
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.04476, -2.99293
- Cadw reference
- 1775
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
On the corner of Church Street and Temple Row.
History
C17 core to a largely mid C18 structure, rebuilt as 2 houses and shops by Samuel Edwards in 1757 (Palmer), and then including No 6 Temple Row.
Exterior
Lined out render over brick, incorporating elements of a timber framed structure, and with slate roof. 2 storeys with attic, 4 window range. No 3 retains an early C19 shop front with doorway to left and bow window with small panes beneath continuous fascia with heavily scrolled brackets; inserted late C20 shop front to No 4. 4-pane sashes with flat arched stuccoed heads with voussoirs and painted stone sills to upper storey, and 3 gabled dormers in the roof. Rusticated angle quoins. Axial stack, and a C19 or early C20 stack added or replaced on gable facing Temple Row. Tripartite window to first floor in this gable return. Timber framing in square panels visible in side and internal partition walls of No 3.
The property is connected at first floor level with No 6 Temple Row, with which it is historically linked.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 4 Church StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 6 Temple RowDomesticunder 1 mi
- 42 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 41 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.