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Latitude: 53.0904 / 53°5'25"N
Longitude: -3.0274 / 3°1'38"W
OS Eastings: 331292
OS Northings: 355289
OS Grid: SJ312552
Mapcode National: GBR 74.99E7
Mapcode Global: WH88R.GLM6
Plus Code: 9C5R3XRF+53
Entry Name: Rock Cottage
Listing Date: 2 July 1975
Last Amended: 1 December 1995
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 1714
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300001714
Location: Above the road as it goes downhill towards the River Alyn at Cefn y Bedd.
County: Wrexham
Community: Gwersyllt
Community: Gwersyllt
Locality: Sydallt
Built-Up Area: Sydallt
Traditional County: Denbighshire
Tagged with: Cottage
The house was built c1830.
Lined-out render with hipped slate roof; brick axial stacks. 2 storeys, 3-window range with paired rear wings. Central entrance with partly glazed door beneath (new) canopy hood. Flanking windows are floor length small-paned sashes with shallow hoods. Upper windows are 16-pane sashes with slight architraves and continuous sill-bands. Similar windows on each floor in return elevations. Plain eaves band and moulded cast-iron guttering. Some small-paned cast-iron windows to rear.
Central entrance and stair hall: steeply curved stairs with thin spindles and swept rail; moulded tread-ends. Principal rooms to either side have marble chimney pieces and plaster frieze and cornice: acanthus motifs and vinescroll: panelled shutters to windows.
The house is a very good and well-preserved example of its type which retains much of its original character including well-detailed interiors.
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