Fern Bank and former Coach House is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 1994. House, former coach house.

Fern Bank and former Coach House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wrexham
Constituency
Wrexham MP: Andrew Ranger (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 January 1994
Type
House, former coach house
Address
Fern Bank and former Coach House, Rhosddu
OS grid reference
SJ 335 509
Coordinates
53.05194, -2.99329
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Fern Bank and the former Coach House is a 19th-century building constructed of brick with stuccoed dressings and a slate roof. It is described as an Anglo-Italian cottage and features two storeys in an L-plan layout, with the entrance located on the side of the advanced left-hand wing. The entrance is marked by an advanced gabled porch supported by pilasters with stiff-leaf capitals, which carry a cornice and entablature.

The upper storey has a sill band and a round arched window with a cast-iron balconette, topped by a steeply arched hood mould. The right-hand range includes an expressed stack and a sash window on each floor to the left. The eaves have a modillion cornice that returns to form an open pediment on the gabled return facing the street. This section features a canted stone bay window with French doors and a beaded frieze to the cornice, along with a round-arched sash window above, which has a steeply arched hood mould that continues as a string course.

The right-hand range has French doors on the ground floor and two 12-pane sash windows above, both equipped with balconettes. There are side and end wall stacks with moulded brackets supporting the projecting caps. At the rear of the house is the former coach house, which is square in plan and low at two storeys with a hipped roof. It features a segmentally arched entrance, a similar entrance in a flat-roofed range to the right, and a round window above. The roof overhangs on moulded brackets and is topped with a weather vane.

Local climate

Fern Bank and former Coach House 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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