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Crossfield

A Grade II Listed Building in Bronington, Wrexham

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.9775 / 52°58'39"N

Longitude: -2.7434 / 2°44'36"W

OS Eastings: 350177

OS Northings: 342498

OS Grid: SJ501424

Mapcode National: GBR 7J.JD3N

Mapcode Global: WH89G.TFS7

Plus Code: 9C4VX7H4+2J

Entry Name: Crossfield

Listing Date: 20 October 2005

Last Amended: 20 October 2005

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 85454

ID on this website: 300085454

Location: On the NE side of a minor road between Redbrook and Higher Wych, approximately 600m NW of Iscoyd Park.

County: Wrexham

Community: Bronington

Community: Bronington

Locality: Iscoyd

Traditional County: Flintshire

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History

Iscoyd Park was purchased in 1843 by Philip Lake Godsal, a Cheltenham coach builder, an estate of 202 acres (82 hectares) comprising mansion house with park, and cottages and smallholdings. Over subsequent decades farms were acquired from neighbouring landowners, mainly during the ownership of Philip William Godsal, who inherited in 1858 and died in 1896. In 1895 it was reported to the Royal Commission on Land in Wales and Monmouthshire that the Iscoyd Park estate, now expanded to 887 acres (359 hectares), had 9 farms. Of these 'six new farmhouses, bricked and slated, and homesteads to them, have been built new entirely' and 'sixteen cottages and buildings for pigs and cows have been erected'. The latter smallholdings include many that were built on the site of earlier smallholdings.

Crossfield, with its small shippon, was built in the early C20 but continues the tradition and style of late C19 estate buildings, albeit to a slightly higher specification.

Exterior

A double-fronted 1½-storey cottage of brick with tile roof on overhanging eaves with plain barge boards and finials, and brick gable stacks. The front has a central entrance under a freestone shallow gabled lintel, with replacement door and glazed panel. It is flanked by 3-light wooden casement windows under segmental heads. Above are 2-light casements under gabled half dormers, and a small central window under the eaves. The R gable end has segmental-headed casement windows on the R side in both storeys. The L gable end has a similar window on the R in the upper storey. A rear lean-to retains an original boarded door and has a window to the R. A very small window is beneath the eaves.

Reasons for Listing

Listed for its special architectural interest as part of a well-preserved early C20 smallholding characteristic of the Iscoyd Park estate style, and for its contribution to the distinctive historic character of the district provided by surviving estate buildings, which together provide a good example of estate-sponsored improvement.

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