Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
36 High Street
Offa, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 16 June 1980
- Town
- Wrexham
- Community
- Offa
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.04494, -2.99255
- Cadw reference
- 1790
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
Part of a continuously developed building line on the S of the street.
History
C18 with earlier rear wing, but extensively rebuilt, c1980.
Exterior
C18 frontage range originally 2 storeyed with attic, 4-window range, with C19 shop fronts to lower floor. Brick with slate roof, moulded stone architraves with entablatures to upper windows, and stone quoins and cornice. Present front wall a copy of this, using brick with concrete dressings, and with lower storey built out. 2 gabled rear wings also extensively rebuilt, but traces of original timber-framing survive in the west wing, and there are also fragments of framing in the frontage range.
Reason for designation
Included for group value as part of an important group of buildings on High Street.
Nearby in the register
- 38 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 39 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 33 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Embassey Public HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.