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Llay Miners Welfare InstitutePhoto: Derek Harper · CC BY-SA 2.0
D−History Grade
History of Llay · Cadw

2 listed buildings

On the Cadw list, all of them stand inside Llay’s built-up area, 4.3 for every 10,000 residents. Every listed building in Llay is Grade II. 2.8% of its homes were built before 1919. Llay grades D− for history.

Listed buildings
2
4.3 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
2.8%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures

Landmarks of Llay

Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.

The map

Where Llay’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.

2 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*2 Grade II

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.

Grade II

2 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 2 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
History Grade

Llay grades D− for history

Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.

Protected heritage, for its size and in all (2 points, 4 per 10,000 residents)More than 10% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (2.8%)More than 5% of UK towns

Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.

Homes by age

2.8% of Llay’s homes were built before 1919

Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).

2.9%
Before 1900
0%
1900–18
30%
1919–29
2.1%
1930s
6.1%
1945–54
1.7%
1955–64
17%
1965–72
8.8%
1973–82
4%
1983–92
2.9%
1993–99
5.4%
2000–08
0.8%
2009–15
18%
2016–25
LlayEngland & Wales

2.9% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1919–29, which added 30% 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.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Llay

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Llay4,66620D−
Bradley1,31600D−
Gresford4,948531B+
Gwersyllt7,11250D
Hope4,422221A−
Brynteg9,229140B
Rossett1,97790B
Wrexham44,7811571B+
In brief

Llay in brief

Llay has 2 listed buildings, including Llay Miners Welfare Institute. Its homes are mostly newer: 2.8% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. For its size the list is short: per resident, it has more listed heritage than only 10% of UK towns. The rest is about typical: all its entries went on the list in 1990.

Questions about Llay’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Llay?

Cadw lists 2 buildings inside Llay’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 2 Grade II.

How old are the homes in Llay?

2.8% of homes were built before 1919 and 35% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

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. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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