157 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Parish Church of St GilesGrade I listedCroesnewydd HallGrade II* listedWrexham General Station: Entrance BuildingGrade II listedButcher's MarketGrade II listedOld LibraryGrade II listed+7See all photos

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.

c. 1792

c. 1830

c. 1850

c. 1875

Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

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. Neighbourhood dots: the population-weighted centre of each Census 2021 output area, coloured by its neighbourhood’s (LSOA’s) share of homes built before 1919 (Valuation Office Agency, March 2025).

Of the 157 entries, 67 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

Cadw’s conservation areas via DataMapWales. Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.

The first 12 entries were listed in 1951, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 81 came in 1994. Only 3 have been added in the last 15 years.

8 scheduled monuments

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Welsh Government (Cadw).

Fairy Oak Round BarrowPrehistoric; Round Barrow

Hillbury Round BarrowPrehistoric; Round Barrow

Wat's Dyke : Section South of Ruthin RoadEarly Medieval; Linear Earthwork

Wat's Dyke at Crispin Lane, WrexhamEarly Medieval; Linear Earthwork

Wat's Dyke: Garden Village SectionEarly Medieval; Linear Earthwork

Wat's Dyke: Section SSW of Wrexham Station, 130m LongEarly Medieval; Linear Earthwork

Wat's Dyke: Sections N & S of the CourtEarly Medieval; Linear Earthwork

Wrexham Churchyard Ornamental Wrought Iron Gates and ScreenPost Medieval/Modern; Gate

2 registered parks and gardens

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.

Daniel Williams

George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys

Henry Lloyd

Thomas Henry

Thomas Penson

Elizabeth Randles

Samuel Warren

John Jones

Alfred Davies

Frederick Green

Bill Roberts

James Trainer

Tom Burke

Harry Trainer

C. H. Dodd

John Godfrey Parry-Thomas

Hugh Hamshaw Thomas

Bernard Warburton-Lee

Ray Bennion

Tom Jones

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George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys1645–1689 · Welsh judge, aka the Hanging Judge (1645–1689)

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C. H. Dodd1884–1973 · British theologian (1884–1973)

Hugh Hamshaw Thomas1885–1962 · British botanist and historian of science (1885-1962)

Samuel Warren1807–1877 · British writer, lawyer and politician

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Henry Lloyd1720–1783 · Welsh army officer and military writer (1720–1783)

Frederick Green1851–1928 · English footballer (1851–1928)

Bernard Warburton-Lee1895–1940 · Recipient of the Victoria Cross (1895–1940)

Elizabeth Randles1800–1829 · Welsh musician (1801-1829)

Everyone born in Wrexham → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

The official list counts 157 listed buildings in Wrexham, 1 of them Grade I, including St Giles' Church. High Street alone has 17 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 5 conservation areas, the first designated in 1974. George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys (1645), C. H. Dodd (1884) and Hugh Hamshaw Thomas (1885) are among the 52 people born here before 1900.

It also has 8 scheduled monuments, the archaeology and ruins the law protects. The big year was 1994, when 81 of the 157 went on the list. Beyond that, it has one Grade I building, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 1); per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 16% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.