Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ty bach at Higher Lanes Bank Farm
Bronington, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 20 October 2005
- Locality
- Higher Wych
- Community
- Bronington
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.98269, -2.76907
- Cadw reference
- 85501
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
In the garden on the NW side of the house.
History
Iscoyd Park was purchased in 1843 by Philip Lake Godsal, a Cheltenham coach builder, and comprised an estate of 202 acres (82 hectares) including 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, including Higher Lanes Bank. 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 ty bach was built in the late C19 and shown on the 1911 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
An outbuilding of brick with tile roof on overhanging eaves, with central brick stack. It has 2 full-height boarded doors with strap hinges.
Reason for designation
Listed for its contribution to a strong farm group, and for its contribution to the distinctive historic character of the district provided by surviving former Iscoyd Park estate buildings, which together provide a good example of estate-sponsored improvement.
Nearby in the register
- Higher Lanes Bank FarmhouseNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Multi-purpose farm range at Higher Lanes Bank FarmNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Pen-y-brynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Farm buildings at Higher Lanes FarmNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.