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Barc-du, also known as Sawmill Cottage

A Grade II Listed Building in Chirk, Wrexham

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.9446 / 52°56'40"N

Longitude: -3.0764 / 3°4'35"W

OS Eastings: 327763

OS Northings: 339118

OS Grid: SJ277391

Mapcode National: GBR 72.LH69

Mapcode Global: WH78C.Q77Y

Plus Code: 9C4RWWVF+RC

Entry Name: Barc-du, also known as Sawmill Cottage

Listing Date: 4 January 1966

Last Amended: 29 July 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 620

Building Class: Domestic

Also known as: Sawmill Cottage

ID on this website: 300000620

Location: The cottage lies on the approach driveway to New Hall.

County: Wrexham

Town: Wrexham

Community: Chirk (Y Waun)

Community: Chirk

Locality: Llwyn-y-cil

Traditional County: Denbighshire

Tagged with: Cottage

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History

The building is of the C16 or C17, near the site of a forming fulling mill recorded in 1668, and was, until c1910, the cottage attached to the sawmill for Chirk Castle. It is of 2 rooms, with a large external stone stack to the principal living room. Roof space converted to an attic room.

Exterior

Timber framed cottage; single storey with attic, infilled with whitewashed panels, and a stone frontage probably replacing framing on the S side. Slate roof. The framing is 2 square panels high and 8 panels long, and the stone front has a central boarded door within an open C20 timber gabled porch. Two-unit plan. Paned timber windows to either side and a small gabled dormer. Small windows to the rear. The roof continues over the shoulder of the large gable stack. Exposed collar and queen strut roof on the E gable end.

Interior

Not accessible at the time of inspection.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a rare example of the smaller vernacular timber framed cottage.

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Other nearby listed buildings

  • II New Hall
    The building stands in a moated site, E of New Hall Gate. It is reached by a farm lane off the road from New Hall Gate to Whitehurst.
  • II New Hall Gate to Chirk Park: the N Lodge
    One of a pair of lodges that flank the present service access to Chirk Castle park, opposite New Hall Road.
  • II New Hall Gate to Chirk Park: the S Lodge
    One of a pair of lodges that flank the present service access to Chirk Castle park, opposite New Hall Road
  • II Nos 6 & 7 Coed-derw
    The pair of cottages stand parallel and set back from the road N of Llwyn-y-cil Cottage.
  • II Llwyn-y-cil Cottage
    The building stands on the E side of the road, raised on a bank, with the former farm barn to the N.
  • II Gazebo
    The gazebo stands at the far end of the E gardens, facing S along the ha-ha wall.
  • II Rob's Cottage, Greenfield and Arosfa
    The building, now subdivided, stands in the hamlet of Fron-isaf, at the sharp bend in the road running down and E to Stryt-y-veri and Chirk.
  • II Ha-ha at the E end of the E Garden
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