Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
2 Warren Cottages
Bronington, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in The Warren, Bronington, Wrexham, designated on 20 October 2005.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 20 October 2005
- Locality
- The Warren
- Community
- Bronington
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.97211, -2.74762
- Cadw reference
- 85446
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1637 map "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1861 · 73. Market Drayton. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 122 Nantwich (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
One of a pair of cottages reached by a short private drive on the N side of a minor road between Iscoyd Park and Whhitewell, approximately 650m NE of Whitewell church.
History
Iscoyd Park was purchased in 1843 by Philip Lake Godsal, a Cheltenham coach builder, an estate of 202 acres (82 hectares) comprising mansion house with park, and cottages and smallholdings. Over subsequent decades farms were acquired from neighbouring landowners, mainly during the ownership of Philip William Godsal, who inherited in 1858 and died in 1896. In 1895 it was reported to the Royal Commission on Land in Wales and Monmouthshire that the Iscoyd Park estate, now expanded to 887 acres (359 hectares), had 9 farms. Of these 'six new farmhouses, bricked and slated, and homesteads to them, have been built new entirely' and 'sixteen cottages and buildings for pigs and cows have been erected'.
Warren Cottages were built in 1866 near the site of a cottage purchased from Sir John Hanmer in 1833.
Reason for designation
Nos 1-2 Warren Cottages are listed for their special architectural interest as well-preserved C19 Iscoyd Park estate cottages, and for their contribution to the distinctive historic character of the district provided by surviving estate buildings, which together provide a good example of estate-sponsored improvement.
Nearby in the register
- 1 Warren CottagesNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Sniddlebog CottageNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Iscoyd Park war memorialNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Gate piers at entrance to Iscoyd ParkNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.