Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Fields
Willington Worthenbury, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 16 November 1962
- Locality
- Willington
- Town
- Wrexham
- Community
- Willington Worthenbury
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.98303, -2.84018
- Cadw reference
- 1703
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1637 "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Located midway between Tallarn Green and the A 525 on the east side of a by-road. The Fields is set back from the road and surrounded by open countryside.
History
Origins as a C17 storied timber-framed house, extended in the C19 and now divided into two separate properties.
Exterior
Two-storey house with square-panelled box-frame, under slate roof with casement windows. Brick-nogging to the frame. Large exposed brick stack to south elevation. Two-storey brick extension to north.
Interior
Interior not accessible at time of inspection but previously recorded as retaining beamed ceilings and roof truss.
Reason for designation
Retained on the list for its surviving C17 fabric.
Nearby in the register
- Buck FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
- Mulsford HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tallarn Green Moated SiteMoated Siteunder 1 mi
- Oak Farm FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.