Pen Dyffryn is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 March 1994. Residential house.

Pen Dyffryn

WRENN ID
veiled-hinge-claret
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wrexham
Constituency
Wrexham MP: Andrew Ranger (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
15 March 1994
Type
Residential house
Address
Pen Dyffryn, Overton
OS grid reference
SJ 372 413
Coordinates
52.96602, -2.93556
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Pen Dyffryn is a two-storey brick building with a slate roof, featuring a main block of three bays and a central entrance. At the rear, there is a service wing that includes a coach house and an arched entry leading into a stable yard, which is enclosed by the stable wing and creates a courtyard behind the house.

The entrance front showcases a central doorway set within a latticed wood porch topped with a swept leaded roof. The doorway is framed by a moulded architrave. To the right of the entrance, there is a squared tripartite bay window, with three similar sash windows located above it. A single-storey extension was added to the left in 1943. The eastern elevation features a small triangular oriel window on the upper storey, followed by a two-window range service wing that is set back. The coach house block is attached to this wing at the rear and includes a segmental archway that leads to the rear yard. The stable block in the yard is partly constructed from red sandstone blocks, indicating that it may have been built around an earlier structure on the site. This block contains a small single-unit cottage with a tiny angles fireplace.

Inside, the central entrance hall is divided by a moulded plaster arch, with a staircase leading towards the rear. The staircase has turned balusters and a swept rail. Throughout the building, there are reeded doorcases, and several original decorative cast iron fireplaces remain in the upper rooms.

Local climate

Pen Dyffryn receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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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