Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
2 Hand Terrace
Chirk, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Chirk, Wrexham, designated on 29 July 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 29 July 1998
- Locality
- Chirk
- Town
- Wrexham
- Community
- Chirk
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.93311, -3.05669
- Cadw reference
- 20217
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)
- 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)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
The terrace fronts the Holyhead Road, immediately N of the Hand Hotel.
History
The terrace of estate workers cottages was built by Chirk Castle estate in c1820-1825 for Charlotte Myddleton-Biddulph. Some later alterations.
Exterior
Door altered, with glazed upper panel.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of estate cottages retaining original detailing, built with an apt sense of scale and forming a picturesque composition, carefully fitted into the existing fabric of Chirk.
Nearby in the register
- 3 Hand TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 1 Hand TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 4 Hand TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 5 Hand TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.