Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Willow House (including Former Coach House to right)
Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llangollen, Denbighshire, designated on 22 December 1989.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 22 December 1989
- Community
- Llangollen
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.96861, -3.17114
- Cadw reference
- 1226
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set in the slope at the bottom of the hill at the Y-junction with Hall Street.
History
Earlier C19 (shown on 1844 Tithe Map) said to have C18 origins. Once the home of Elizabeth Hughes who with her sister Jane served the Ladies of Llangollen from ca 1810 onwards. Elizabeth married into Morgan's brewery family and lived here. Gothick
Exterior
3-storey 2-window twin gabled pebbledash front with end pilaster strips and plinth. Slate roof with brick chimney stacks (overgrown to left). Cusped bargeboards to gables with finials; lintels and margins to 3-light Gothick casement windows. Tall and grand porch in similar style with openwork detail and pendant; finial missing; modern door under a bracket pediment. Contemporary railings to the front.
Pebbledashed left hand side with half glazed door. Plaque reading J S T 1844 infact relates to the former nail factory nearby. Rubble rear built into the hillside. Rubble right hand side with advanced chimney breast and 1 sash window. Plain 3-storey, 2-window stock brick range set back to right with gables. Rubble former coach house beyond forward to the street and set in the slope; linked to the house by roadside rubble boundary wall. Gable to right over cambered brick arched coach entry; Gothick panelled doors and 2-light window.
The coach house was in poor condition at time of inspection (Spring 1989).
Interior
Bracket cornice and reeded pilasters to the hallway.
Nearby in the register
- 21 Hall StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 23 Hall StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 25 Hall StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Laurel CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.