Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Commercial Public House
Offa, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Wrexham, Offa, designated on 31 January 1994.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 31 January 1994
- Town
- Wrexham
- Community
- Offa
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.04443, -2.99394
- Cadw reference
- 1777
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)
- 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
On the lower side of Collage Street, near its junction with Town Hill, and next door to the Cambrian Vaults Public House.
History
Probably purpose-built as a public house in early C19 (first recorded as The Commercial Hotel in 1841), but replacing an earlier building on the site, which had been occupied since at least the late C17.
Exterior
Painted brick with slate roof. 3 storeys, 3 window range, with entrance to left of centre. 4-panelled doorway in moulded wood architrave with console brackets to entablature, paired windows to its right, and a single window to the left. These were formerly 12-pane sashes, the glazing bars now removed from the lower lights. Round arched passage entry to right. Upper windows are 12-pane sashes with wider 16-pane sash over entrance, and 6 8-pane sashes of less height in upper storey. All windows have painted flat arched stone heads. Plain wood eaves band, and 2 axial stacks in hipped roof.
Reason for designation
A good example of a town public house of C1820.
Group value with The Cambrian Public House.
Nearby in the register
- The Cambrian Vaults Public HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- 2 Chest Tombs adjacent to W Boundary of ChurchyardReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Dodman'sDomesticunder 1 mi
- 7 Town HillDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.