Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Parkey Farmhouse
Sesswick, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bedwell, Sesswick, Wrexham, designated on 20 December 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 20 December 1996
- Locality
- Bedwell
- Community
- Sesswick
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.02415, -2.92553
- Cadw reference
- 18062
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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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV.Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. a. England ab sich: Shire:15-17, 33 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Parkey Farm is situated at the end of a private track entered from the north side of the B5130 approx. 1.6km to the east of the Cross Lanes junction.
History
Parkey Farm is assumed to have been built in the late C18/early C19 as the home farm for Parkey Hall (demolished 1972).
Exterior
Three storeys, of brick construction, with stone quoins, under a grey slate roof, chimney stacks to east and west gable ends. Symmetrical font elevation with central doorway and remains of doorcase. Six-pane sash windows on stone sills. Some later additions and alterations to two-storey rear and side elevations.
Interior
Internal inspection not possible at time of 1996 survey. Said to retain many original features.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of a late C18/early C19 farmhouse.
Nearby in the register
- Pum-RhydDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bedwell HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Talwrn HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pickhill FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.