Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Shippon at 1 Smokey Lane
Bronington, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 20 October 2005
- Locality
- Whitewell
- Community
- Bronington
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.97158, -2.76445
- Cadw reference
- 85482
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
On the N side of the house.
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'. The latter smallholdings include many that were built on the site of earlier smallholdings.
No 1 Smokey Lane is dated 1867 and the shippon is probably contemporary with it.
Exterior
A small shippon of brick with a tile roof. It has 3 split boarded doors.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as part of a well-preserved C19 smallholding characteristic of the Iscoyd Park estate style, and for its contribution to the distinctive historic character of the district provided by surviving former estate buildings, which together provide a good example of estate-sponsored improvement.
Nearby in the register
- 1 Smokey LaneNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Parkley LodgeNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Miles CottageNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Shippon at Church HoldingNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.