Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Rhyd-y-cyffin Farmhouse
Maelor South, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Penley, Maelor South, Wrexham, designated on 18 November 2005.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 18 November 2005
- Locality
- Penley
- Community
- Maelor South
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.97067, -2.88517
- Cadw reference
- 86968
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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
To the W of the junction with Hollybush Lane, approximately 2.5km NNW of Penley.
History
A Gredington estate house of the mid C19, replacing an earlier house shown on the 1837 Tithe map.
Exterior
A 2-storey 2-window house with integral rear wing; hand-moulded chequerwork Flemish-bond brick, slate roof on dentil eaves and brick stacks, partly rebuilt. Central boarded door under a gabled canopy. Windows are 3-light casements, beneath segmental brick heads in the lower storey, wooden lintels in the upper storey, all with moulded-brick sills.
In the R gable end is a segmental-headed 2-light window lower R. The L gable end is continuous with the rear wing. This has 2-light casement windows, smaller in the upper storey. Added lean-to on gable end of wing, and another against its rear wall, housing a pantry with a segmental-headed window with metal gauze, below a 2-light window. In the rear of the main range is a 2-light upper-storey window on the L side. The L gable end of the house has a lean-to of weatherboards and corrugated-iron roof over a well, inside which is a boarded door.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved C19 estate farmhouse of definite architectural character and distinctive local brickwork, and forming a strong farm group with the multi-purpose farm building.
Nearby in the register
- Multi-purpose farm building at Rhyd-y-cyffin FarmNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Halghton HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lane FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Poulton BridgeTransport1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.