Primrose Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 June 1996. Cottage group.

Primrose Cottage

WRENN ID
roaming-thatch-claret
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wrexham
Constituency
Wrexham MP: Andrew Ranger (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
3 June 1996
Type
Cottage group
Address
Primrose Cottage, Marford, Gresford
OS grid reference
SJ 359 563
Coordinates
53.1005, -2.95749
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Primrose Cottage is a Grade II listed building that features a combination of painted brick, render, stone, and timber framing, with a slate roof and brick chimneys, some of which are rendered. The cottage has a long, curved street frontage adorned with a dentil eaves cornice and projecting gabled bays at each end. It is symmetrical, with a slightly projecting central bay that includes a segmental pediment and an entrance with an arched head and pediment. Flanking this entrance are three grouped arched windows, a single arched window, and a door featuring an arched opening, triangular pediment, and heavy label. The upper floor boasts a large Diocletian style tripartite window. The gables have upswept roofs, and the dentil cornice extends for a short distance at the eaves level. The first floor has large arched openings, one of which on the left is partly blocked, along with 20th-century bowed windows at the ground floor. The return elevations showcase full-height semicircular bays and a similar arrangement of arched openings. The rear elevation includes central garage doors with a taking-in door above and gabled dormer windows.

Stone Cottage, part of the same group, features timber-framed walls and stone plinths, clad with brick skin walls on the exterior elevations, and has an inserted ceiling made of roughly chamfered timbers. Romney Cottage has been remodelled in the 20th century, while the interiors of the other cottages were not accessible during the 1995 survey. Primrose Cottage has group value with Holly Cottage, Beech Cottage, and Roft Lee.

Local climate

Primrose Cottage receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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