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Minera, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in New Brighton, Wrexham, Minera, designated on 22 April 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 22 April 1998
- Locality
- New Brighton
- Town
- Wrexham
- Community
- Minera
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.05032, -3.08579
- Cadw reference
- 19724
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 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
Situated in New Brighton towards the NW end of the highest level of buildings on the hillside overlooking Minera.
History
Pair of houses, now one, built after 1865 as part of the lead-mining community of New Brighton for which 24 plots were sold by the Chester Charities in 1865. This part of Minera parish known as 'City Lands' was beqeathed by Owen Jones (d1659), a butcher of Chester, to 'the poor of every Company of Merchants and Craftsmen in the City of Chester'. The area was agricultural until the mid-C18 when a trustee of the charity, Alderman Richardson, promoted lead prospecting. It was so successful that between 1761 and 1781 some £13,000 were paid to the charity in royalties.
Exterior
Pair of semi-detached houses now one. Rubble stone with squared stone quoins, slate roof and brick end stacks. Each house two storeys, double-fronted. Windows are 16-pane hornless sashes with tooled stone sills and lintels. Four panel doors. Ground floor windows and doors have large shaped stone lintels.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved example of a pair of later C19 semi-detached houses connected with the Minera lead mines, historically important with others in this industrial settlement pattern.
Nearby in the register
- Maelor HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Maelor ViewDomesticunder 1 mi
- GwylfaDomesticunder 1 mi
- Chimney near Meadow Engine HouseIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.