Nos 1 and 2 Home Farm Cottages, Chirk, Wrexham

Coordinates

Latitude: 52.9373 / 52°56'14"N

Longitude: -3.0931 / 3°5'34"W

OS Eastings: 326634

OS Northings: 338322

OS Grid: SJ266383

Mapcode National: GBR 71.LZ17

Mapcode Global: WH78C.GFBK

Plus Code: 9C4RWWP4+WQ

Entry Name: Nos 1 and 2 Home Farm Cottages

Listing Date: 29 July 1998

Last Amended: 29 July 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 20271

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300020271

Location: Home Farm Cottages are a pair of estate cottages, lying ENE of Home Farm and facing E over the former pool.

County: Wrexham

Town: Wrexham

Community: Chirk (Y Waun)

Community: Chirk

Locality: Chirk Castle

Traditional County: Denbighshire

Tagged with: Cottage

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History

Built in 1874 to accommodate estate workers, and restored by the National Trust, including demolition of inappropriate extensions.

Exterior

A pair of bilaterally symmetrical cottages. Rubble stonework with a red tile roof. Two storeys, each cottage is of 2 bays with a central entrance, a boarded door within an open timber framed and gabled porch. Three-light timber window to the main living room, elsewhere similar 2-light windows, all with stone lintels. The inner bay of both cottages is combined under a large gable, containing the datestone. The outer bay of each is under a smaller gable. Tall brick stacks.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a picturesque and well restored pair of estate cottages, a significant component of a group of estate buildings at the Home Farm of Chirk Castle Estate.

External Links

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Recommended Books

Other nearby listed buildings

II Johnston's Cottage and Farm Buildings of Home Farm
Home farm stands in Chirk Castle park, approximately 170m NW of the castle, from which it is largely hidden by the configuration of the ground.
II Squash Court at Chirk Castle
Situated 200m to the south of Chirk Castle Home Farm
I Chirk Castle
The castle stands on a bluff overlooking and controlling the Ceiliog Valley. It is reached by Station Avenue running directly W from Chirk township.
II Wall on the NE side of the driveway to the Stables
The wall bounds the NE side of the driveway, and encloses the service access from the park to the N.
II Wall bounding driveway to the Stables and continuing the stable yard screen
The driveway from Deepark Lodge drive climbs up to the stables. The wall defines the road on the SW side.
II* Stable Ranges
The stables adjoin the castle to the S, forming two sides of the service courtyard
II Gates to E Garden
The gates are at the N end of the main cross walk at the head of the E gardens of the Castle, set within hedging.
II Screen Wall and Towers defining the S Stable Yard on the S side
The structure runs parallel to the S wing of the stables, on the lip of the escarpment

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Nos 1 and 2 Home Farm Cottages

A Grade II Listed Building in Chirk, Wrexham