Plas Gwilym is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 1994. House. 1 related planning application.
Plas Gwilym
- WRENN ID
- pale-wicket-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wrexham
- Constituency
- Wrexham MP: Andrew Ranger (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1994
- Type
- House
- Address
- Plas Gwilym, 3 Grove Road, Rhosddu, LL11 1DY
- OS grid reference
- SJ 334 509
- Coordinates
- 53.05137, -2.99446
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Plas Gwilym is a building constructed of brick with stone dressings and a slate roof, dating from the 19th century. It is two storeys high and features a three-window range with a central entrance. The design exhibits a balanced asymmetry, highlighted by an advanced gabled wing to the left of the main range and an entrance tower at the angle. The gabled porch, supported by a brick and stone base, has open-work timber and a pendant finial on its enriched bargeboards. Above the doorway is a two-light mullioned and transomed window with a relieving arch, and the upper stage of the tower contains a blind trefoiled lancet. The tower is topped with a bell-cast pavilion roof, which is adorned with wrought iron brattishing.
On the right side, there is a canted bay window with mullioned and transomed lights on the ground floor, and an upper window beneath a gabled dormer featuring fretted bargeboards. The gabled return has a two-light wood mullioned and transomed window, with the upper window having been renewed. The enriched bargeboards also feature a pendant finial. The left side presents an asymmetrical gable facing the street, with a four-light mullioned and transomed window on the ground floor and a two-light oriel window above, both adorned with fretted bargeboards and a finial. The return elevation to the former side garden on the southwest includes a central gable with a canted bay window and a mullioned and transomed window above.
To the northeast is a service wing, which has undergone some alterations to its windows due to its conversion to offices. The building retains its original plan and much of its decorative detail, including a tiled entrance hall, a top-lit staircase with trefoiled panelled balusters, several fireplaces, and joinery details featuring stilted shafts in the doorcase of the lower floor.
Local climate
Plas Gwilym 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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
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