Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Wyen Wenn Farmhouse
Maelor South, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Tarts Hill, 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
- Tarts Hill
- Community
- Maelor South
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.94373, -2.83911
- Cadw reference
- 86973
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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
Reached by farm road on the NE side of a minor road between Breaden Heah and Penley, approximately 2.1km SE of Penley.
History
A modest late C18 or early C19 former Gredington estate farmhouse shown on the 1839 Tithe map.
Exterior
A small 2-storey farmhouse of brick with slate roof and end brick stack to the R, external stack to the L. Its entrance, offset to the R of centre, has a boarded door, under a later gabled canopy on brackets. Windows are 2-light casements in original openings, under segmental heads in the lower storey. Against the R gable end is an added lean-to with 2-light window and boarded door.
In the rear is a 2-light window on the R side. On the L side is a rear wing with 2 inserted windows in the side wall and 2-light casement above. Its opposite side wall has a 2-light window in the lower storey, single casement in the upper storey and small C20 lean-to on the L side with concrete lintel to the doorway.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved small C19 estate farmhouse, a type once common in the district but now rarely well preserved.
Nearby in the register
- Stryt Lydan Farm-houseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stryt LydanNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Lower HouseNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- The WernDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.