4 Hand Terrace is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 July 1998. Terrace of cottages.
4 Hand Terrace
- WRENN ID
- bitter-parapet-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wrexham
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1998
- Type
- Terrace of cottages
- Address
- 4 Hand Terrace, Chirk, LL14 5EU
- OS grid reference
- SJ 290 378
- Coordinates
- 52.93319, -3.05672
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
4 Hand Terrace is a terrace of seven estate workers' cottages, constructed of brick and roughcast, topped with slate roofs. Each cottage is one storey with an attic and has a single bay. The terrace features three forward wings that contain cottages 1, 4, and 7, with cottages 2 and 3 located between the central and southern wings, and cottages 5 and 6 at the northern end. The entrances are positioned in the recessed sections beneath a continuous open slated verandah that extends partway up the wings. The cottages have Gothic pointed arched boarded doors set in heavily moulded frames, along with 2-light paned windows that also feature pointed heads. The wings include canted paned timber windows and one first-floor raised and gabled dormer. The eaves of the canted bays are cogged brick. In the northern section, the doors are swapped with the windows compared to the southern section. At the rear, all cottages have various later extensions, and the windows have been altered. In the central wing, the first-floor gable end window has been replaced with a 3-light transomed timber window.
Local climate
4 Hand Terrace receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings