Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bryn Aber
Maelor South, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 18 November 2005
- Locality
- Lightwood Green
- Community
- Maelor South
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.96045, -2.90696
- Cadw reference
- 86961
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
Reached by private drive on the N side of the A539, approximately 300m NE of the centre of Lightwood Green.
History
A Gredington estate house of the early C19, shown on the 1837 Tithe map. It was sold by the estate in 1964.
Exterior
A 2-storey 2-window house of hand-moulded brick, slate roof on sawtooth eaves, and brick end stacks. An added gabled porch has a hipped roof, inside which is the original boarded door. Windows have segmental heads in the lower storey, flat arches in the upper storey, and are C19 3-light iron-frame casements with Gothic glazing bars. Other windows to side and rear are wooden casements.
Projecting on the L side is a parallel rear wing, with dentil eaves. Facing the front of the house is a 2-light steel-framed window. Its gable end has a 2-light window in the lower storey in a former doorway, and 3-light window in the upper storey. Behind is an added lean-to, which continues across another rear wing, placed at right angles to the main range. This also has dentil eaves. In its rear gable end is a 2-light segmental-headed window in the upper storey and attic vent. The side wall has a 3-light window in the lower storey, 2-light window above, both seemingly in inserted late C19 openings with brick segmental heads.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a C19 farmhouse retaining definite original character and early detail, including distinctive iron-frame windows.
Nearby in the register
- Lightwood Farm Moated SiteMoated Siteunder 1 mi
- Plas-yn-Coed FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lightwood Hall FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Sandy Lane FarmhouseNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.