Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Plas-Offa
Chirk, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Whitehurst, Wrexham, Chirk, designated on 29 July 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 29 July 1998
- Locality
- Whitehurst
- Town
- Wrexham
- Community
- Chirk
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.95732, -3.07062
- Cadw reference
- 20253
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 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
The farmhouse stands on the SE side of Offa's Dyke where it crosses the main Holyhead Road. The farm buildings range to the W.
History
The farmhouse was probably built c1840-50.
Exterior
The house is of rubble stonework with slate roofs between coped gables on moulded kneelers, and prominent gable stacks. Two storeys with cellars. Two parallel ranges, the elevation of each being of 3 bays with a central entrance; that to the NE within a wide porch with a pitched roof. Panelled door with glazed side windows. Iron casement windows in timber mullioned and transomed timber frames, all under segmental heads formed with stepped ashlar lintels, 3-light to the side bays, 2 above the door. The rear elevation, facing SE, has a framed and battened door with a glazed overlight, set under a flat moulded stone hood on brackets. The conspicuous chimneys are also of stone, multiply corbelled, and have diagonally set flues.
Reason for designation
Included as a very prominent and finely constructed farmhouse of the mid C19.
Nearby in the register
- Offa's Dyke: Section N & S of Plas-OffaLinear Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Smithy at Whitehurst Gate and House attachedIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Whitehouse BridgeNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Irishman's Bridge on the Llangollen CanalTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.