Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Mill House
Marchwiel, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 3 December 1996
- Locality
- Marchwiel Hall
- Community
- Marchwiel
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.02766, -2.98462
- Cadw reference
- 17844
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
Situated at the end of a track from the private drive of Marchwiel Hall.
History
It is thought that this has been the site of a mill for many centuries. The present house and abandoned watermill date from a remodelling of the 1840s. This highly decorative estate building was clearly designed to be a feature in the mid C19 landscape park. The watermill was burnt out in the 1940s.
Exterior
House with attached former watermill to N. Single storey with attic, brick painted white with mock timber framing, dentil cornice, renewed Welsh slate roof. House has red brick central stack with 3 diagonally set chimneys. W elevation has 2 cast-iron lozenge patterned windows to ground floor. Decorative wooden string course to attic storey, dentil pattern with central section of carved foliage and flowers containing inscription `TM. AMM 1840'. Attic storey has jettied dormer window topped with carved wooden finial. S elevation contains painted black and white original entrance door with wooden panelled door with decorative iron strap hinge. Wooden door jambs and lintel carved in ornate manner with foliage and flowers. Former watermill brick construction with wheel pit.
Interior
House contains simple fireplace with small built-in range. No evidence of machinery in former watermill.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of an 1840s estate cottage which also functioned as a landscape park feature probably as part of a ride through the park.
Nearby in the register
- Pigsties at Marchwiel HallAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Stables at Marchwiel HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Marchwiel HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Walled Garden and Bothy at Marchwiel HallDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.