Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Nos 1 and 2 Home Farm Cottages
Chirk, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 29 July 1998
- Locality
- Chirk Castle
- Town
- Wrexham
- Community
- Chirk
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.93726, -3.09306
- Cadw reference
- 20271
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "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).
Cadw's description
Location
Home Farm Cottages are a pair of estate cottages, lying ENE of Home Farm and facing E over the former pool.
History
Built in 1874 to accommodate estate workers, and restored by the National Trust, including demolition of inappropriate extensions.
Exterior
A pair of bilaterally symmetrical cottages. Rubble stonework with a red tile roof. Two storeys, each cottage is of 2 bays with a central entrance, a boarded door within an open timber framed and gabled porch. Three-light timber window to the main living room, elsewhere similar 2-light windows, all with stone lintels. The inner bay of both cottages is combined under a large gable, containing the datestone. The outer bay of each is under a smaller gable. Tall brick stacks.
Reason for designation
Included as a picturesque and well restored pair of estate cottages, a significant component of a group of estate buildings at the Home Farm of Chirk Castle Estate.
Nearby in the register
- Johnston's Cottage and Farm Buildings of Home FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
- Squash Court at Chirk CastleNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Offa's Dyke: Chirk Park Section extending 340m NE of Home FarmLinear Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Chirk CastleDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.