Drenewydd

Drenewydd is a farmhouse dating to the late 16th or early 17th century, with later additions and alterations. The house is built of timber framing, red brick (now mainly rendered), and has slate roofs. The plan is complex, comprising a long hall range with a gabled cross-wing projecting to the left, a full-height gabled porch in the angle between the two, and a contemporary gabled wing running parallel to the cross-wing on the left. A further three gables are visible at the rear of the hall range, and there is evidence that the hall range may have originally extended a little further to the right.

The house is two storeys and has attics. Exposed timber framing is visible in the attics of the gables to the front, left range, and cross-wing, exhibiting herringbone struts, upper and lower collars with raking struts, and boxed double-purlin ends. The porch features a cusped quatrefoil and boxed single-purlin ends, along with X-shaped decoration to the bressumer. The hall range has an underbuilt moulded bressumer with zig-zag decoration and widely spaced vertical posts. Mid-20th century casement windows are present on the first floor, with two on each floor to the left gable, cross-wing, and hall range, and one to the porch. The ground floor has horned glazing bar sashes, two of 16 panes to the left gable, and two 24-paned sashes to the cross-wing. A prominent 20th-century neo-Georgian bow window is situated at the centre of the hall range on the ground floor. The left gable has a small three-light mullion window to the attic, and a similar two-light window is located in the attic of the cross-wing. The porch features a 20th-century outer half-glazed door within a glazed surround, but retains the original first-floor moulded bressumer. The inner door, with six large rectangular panels, is likely from the late 17th century.

Internally, a large axial red brick stack is positioned immediately in front of the ridge to the right of the hall range, and a valley stack with a dentilled band to the top and a 20th-century red brick shaft sits between the cross-wing and the porch. An integral lateral red brick stack is located at the rear (right side) of the left-gabled wing. A room to the left of the entrance has late 17th-century raised and fielded panelling, similar to that at Halston Hall, with a moulded wooden cornice. Panelled doors with H-hinges are found in corners. A room to the right of the entrance features a large chimney breast on the right wall with an early 17th-century plaster overmantel over a 20th-century fireplace. The overmantel incorporates a moulded coat-of-arms and other decoration with the initials and date "1624" in raised lettering. Cross beam ceilings with straight-cut stops are present in this and other ground-floor rooms. A 17th-century framed newel staircase originally rose from this room to the first floor, but the doorway leading to it has been blocked and widened, reusing 17th-century panelling from elsewhere in the house. The staircase is now altered to a bottom flight and is approached through a corridor at the rear; it retains turned balusters and a moulded handrail. The first-floor corridor within the hall range features 17th-century panelling with a fluted frieze. Due to limitations at the time of resurvey (June 1986), an inspection of the first-floor rooms and attics was not possible, but they are considered likely to be of interest. The property is situated on Oswestry Road, which is shown as Whittington Road on Ordnance Survey mapping.