Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Shop Cottage
Willington Worthenbury, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Worthenbury, Wrexham, Willington Worthenbury, designated on 7 May 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 7 May 1998
- Locality
- Worthenbury
- Town
- Wrexham
- Community
- Willington Worthenbury
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.00945, -2.86600
- Cadw reference
- 19778
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1637 map "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1861 · 73. Market Drayton. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 122 Nantwich (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located in the centre of the village on the north side of the main road (B 5069) and attached to the former Post Office and Malt House.
History
Early C19 village workers cottage, formerly used as the village shop. Said to have been owned by the merchant who lived in Admiralty House. Undergoing internal renovation at time of survey in 1996.
Exterior
One of two cottages forming a terrace of what formerly had been four. Two-storey painted brown brick cottage under slate roof with brick chimney stack. Toothed dentilated brick eaves. One door with small paned lights to top. Two near-flush two-light casement windows to front elevation, that to the ground floor is camber-headed, similar camber-headed window to the gable end.
Reason for designation
Listed together with The Malt House (including the former Post Office) and Admiralty House as a prominent historic group in the centre of the village.
Nearby in the register
- The Malt House including attached cottage to rightDomesticunder 1 mi
- Admiralty HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Worthenbury BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Parish Church of St DeiniolReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.