Rob's Cottage, Greenfield and Arosfa is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 July 1998. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

Rob's Cottage, Greenfield and Arosfa

WRENN ID
tangled-cornice-pearl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wrexham
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 July 1998
Type
Cottage
Address
Rob's Cottage, Greenfield and Arosfa, Fron-Isaf, Chirk, LL14 5AH
OS grid reference
SJ 273 402
Coordinates
52.95476, -3.08258
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Rob’s Cottage, located within the west wing, is a timber-framed building resting on a higher stone sill wall than the central bay and east wing. The timber frame is storey height, without any projecting jetties, and is infilled with painted white material. The gable end truss incorporates diagonal braces above the tie beam. A lateral chimney stack is partly external to the west side. A later lateral entrance door is present, sheltered by a tiled, timber-framed porch.

Greenfield occupies the four westernmost panels of the central hall bay of the original U-plan farmhouse. It is timber-framed and has rendered and whitewashed infill panels that extend three stories in height. The building has a gabled, tiled, timber-framed porch and a 20th-century timber window on the ground floor, along with one small gabled dormer. In 1996, two posts and cross noggings were replaced with oak.

Arosfa's entrance is positioned opposite the stack at the upper end of the former timber-framed hall, likely its original location. It abuts the east wing, which was originally timber-framed with close studding but has had its front and east-side walls replaced with stone, now colourwashed. The entrance is accessed via a tiled, gabled, timber-framed porch. The wing’s windows are two-light timber casement windows and there is an added brick chimney stack.

Rob’s Cottage and Arosfa were not accessible during inspection.

Inside Greenfield, the living room features deeply chamfered cross beams with cut stops that divide the ceiling into four sections, and ogee-moulded minor joists. The cross beam in front of the fireplace is cambered and continues as a deeply chamfered arch over the recess, which was formerly a passage on the south side leading to the original entrance. The fireplace has canted ashlar jambs. The closely timber-framed wall at the lower end, which forms the party wall with Rob's Cottage, is raised on a higher sill. The floor is finished with quarry tiles. A kitchen is attached to the rear, and a boxed early 19th-century staircase leads to the upper floor. The roof is said to have a collar truss on queen struts and supports a single tier of purlins.

Local climate

Rob's Cottage, Greenfield and Arosfa receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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