Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
29 Chester Street
Rhosddu, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Rhosddu, Wrexham, designated on 30 May 1951.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 30 May 1951
- Community
- Rhosddu
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.04778, -2.99208
- Cadw reference
- 1828
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
Last house in a terrace on the west side of the street north of its junction with Lambpit Street.
History
Built as a house c1830, but possibly intended to house office accommodation from the outset, and now used as offices.
Exterior
Flemish bond brickwork with slate roof. 3 storeys, 2 window range with entrance to left. Panelled door with radial fanlight recessed in segmental headed archway with pedimented hood carried on brackets. Tripartite sash window with flanking side lights to lower floor, all with painted stone rusticated voussoir heads.
Similar heads to 12-pane sash windows of first floor, and lower sash windows to attic storey. Plain wood eaves cornice and end wall stacks.
Reason for designation
Forms part of a group with Nos 23, 24-25, 26, 27 and 28 Chester Street, the whole representing a surviving C19 street scape now rare in Wrexham.
Nearby in the register
- 28 Chester StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 27 Chester StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 26 Chester StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Wingett HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.