Photo: nick macneill · CC BY-SA 2.0Froncysyllte is home to a World Heritage Site: Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
39% of Froncysyllte’s homes were built before 1919. Cadw lists 5 buildings inside Froncysyllte’s built-up area, 84 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument.
Where Froncysyllte’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
Cadw lists buildings of special architectural or historic interest in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest, Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest, and Grade II for buildings of special interest. Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.
Every entry on Cadw’s register of listed buildings whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings.
5 Grade II listed buildings
Most listed buildings are in this grade, which covers buildings of special interest. Open any building to read its official list entry.
All 5 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
1 conservation area covers 4% of Froncysyllte
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Cadw’s conservation areas via DataMapWales. Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.
Monuments, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
World Heritage
| Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and CanalUNESCO World Heritage Site, partly or wholly inside the town |
1 scheduled monument
Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Welsh Government (Cadw).
1 registered park or garden
39% of Froncysyllte’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
38% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1945–54, which added 20% of today’s homes.
Valuation Office Agency, council tax stock of properties by build period, 31 March 2025, for the neighbourhoods (LSOAs) that make up the town, split by where their residents live. Homes with no recorded build period (0 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Listed buildings in the places around Froncysyllte
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Froncysyllte | 598 | 5 | 0 | — |
| Trevor | 1,397 | 8 | 0 | B |
| Acrefair and Cefn-mawr | 6,905 | 8 | 2 | B− |
| Chirk | 3,930 | 29 | 1 | B |
| Ruabon | 3,414 | 40 | 1 | A− |
| Llangollen | 3,048 | 170 | 1 | A+ |
| Weston Rhyn | 1,381 | 5 | 0 | C− |
| Rhosllannerchrugog | 12,789 | 12 | 0 | C+ |
Froncysyllte in brief
Froncysyllte holds part of a World Heritage Site, Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal. All told, the list holds 5 listed buildings. Its housing is old: 39% of homes date from before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1998. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: the list grew between 1992 and 1998; and it also has a scheduled monument.
Questions about Froncysyllte’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Froncysyllte?
Cadw lists 5 buildings inside Froncysyllte’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 5 Grade II.
Are there scheduled monuments in Froncysyllte?
Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal.
Is Froncysyllte a World Heritage Site?
Froncysyllte is home to part or all of Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal, inscribed by UNESCO.
How many conservation areas are there in Froncysyllte?
1, covering about 1 hectares of the town. The largest is Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
How old are the homes in Froncysyllte?
39% of homes were built before 1919 and 48% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Froncysyllte has no History Grade.
Listed buildings, scheduled monuments and historic parks and gardens: Cadw, © Crown copyright, via DataMapWales.
Sources: Cadw listed buildings, scheduled monuments and registered historic parks and gardens via DataMapWales, October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only · Cadw conservation areas via DataMapWales (October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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