Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Shippon and piggery at Higher Barns Lodge
Bronington, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 20 October 2005
- Locality
- Lower Wych
- Community
- Bronington
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.98780, -2.77951
- Cadw reference
- 85481
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1637 "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
To the SW of the cottage.
History
Shippon and piggery are contemporary with the cottage, dated 1875, part of a smallholding very similar to those built for the Iscoyd Park estate in the latter half of the nineteenth century. It is shown on the 1911 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
The shippon is brick with slate roof on a dentil verge. It has 2 split doors, the L-hand replaced, with strap hinges. Set forward and in-line on the L side is the lower piggery, also of brick with slate roof on a dentil verge. It has a replacement boarded door. In its L gable end are 2 low round-headed openings, of which the L-hand is within one of 2 low added outshuts against the rear.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special historic interest as part of a well-preserved C19 smallholding, with an unusual layout to the piggery, but otherwise a type characteristic of the district.
Nearby in the register
- Higher Barns LodgeNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Pen-y-brynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Brunett Farmhouse and Brunett AnnexeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Shippon at Brunett FarmNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.