Pen-y-bryn is a Grade II* listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 November 1962. House.

Pen-y-bryn

WRENN ID
stranded-bastion-oak
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Wrexham
Country
Wales
Date first listed
16 November 1962
Type
House
Source
Cadw listing

Description

A substantial double-pile 2½-storey 5-bay brick house with freestone dressings, including rusticated quoin strips and plat bands, slate roof on projecting eaves and behind coped gables on moulded kneelers, and corbelled end stacks between the piles. The symmetrical front has a central entrance framed by a bolection moulded architrave with keystone and cornice, and has a panel door. Windows are 2-light wood-framed casements with transoms. Bays 1 and 4 have C19 round heads. Bays 2 and 5 have original cambered heads of rubbed brick with keystones, and stone sills. The upper storey has windows with similar detail, except the wider central window which has a stone architrave and relief-moulded keystone.

Sides and rear have brick plat bands, of which the upper incorporates a sawtooth frieze. In the R end wall the attic has 2-light casement windows in both piles, and added 2-light windows in the rear pile. In the L end wall are 2-light attic windows and segmental-headed windows in the rear pile. The rear, originally 3-window, has 2-light windows to the centre and R side under segmental heads, and a central panel door. A former window upper L is blocked and obscured by an added 1-storey wing, of brick with dentil eaves and end stack, with a wide doorway under a timber lintel.

The interior retains a traditional plan of hall and parlour, with stair and service rooms in the rear pile. The hall retains a panelled wainscot R of the stair. The closed-string staircase has a fielded-panel dado and is open at the bottom, under an elliptical arch, where its balusters curve outwards. The parlour has fielded panels to walls and reveals and a moulded wooden cornice.

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