Cofnod Safle

Twin red-brick semi-detached canal-side houses of the late nineteenth or early twentieth century built on an enormous earth embankment at the south end of Chirk Aqueduct. The semi-detached houses, with a joined privy and pigsty block at the garden end, were built after 1891 for canal maintenance workers on a huge earthwork platform that is indicative of the heroic scale of engineering of the canal.

Stephen R. Hughes, RCAHMW, 10 September 2007.