Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Smithy at Whitehurst Gate and House attached
Chirk, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Whitehurst, Wrexham, Chirk, designated on 4 January 1966.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 4 January 1966
- Locality
- Whitehurst
- Town
- Wrexham
- Community
- Chirk
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.95685, -3.06763
- Cadw reference
- 627
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 building stands on the NW angle of the road junction with the B5605 Newbridge Road
History
The building is reputed to be that of Mr Davies, a smith employed by Thomas Telford during his work on the Holyhead Road from 1819 onwards. The smithy has a keystone inscribed '1825 Davies' over the forge opening, probably reset.
Exterior
Stone with slated roof and stone stacks. Two storeys, two abutting 'L'-shaped buildings with left gables to the main road, the more westerly having the door and dormer window over with cut bargeboards. Gable stacks. The easterly building is set lower, and its E arm contains the smithy. Modern stained timber windows to the wings. The smithy has an open front to the B5605, a segmental arch with keystone inscribed 1825 Davies, now glazed.
Reason for designation
Included as a prominent building with associations with Telford and the realignment of the Holyhead Road, still retaining an appropriately robust rustic architectural character of the early C19 despite later alterations.
Nearby in the register
- Plas-OffaDomesticunder 1 mi
- Whitehouse BridgeNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Offa's Dyke: Section N & S of Plas-OffaLinear Earthworkunder 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.