Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Kenyon Cottages
Willington Worthenbury, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 7 May 1998
- Locality
- Tallarn Green
- Town
- Wrexham
- Community
- Willington Worthenbury
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.99149, -2.82569
- Cadw reference
- 19780
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 on the south-west side of the main road through Tallarn Green, at the top of the village and adjacent to the village school.
History
Built at the expense of Henrietta Kenyon, daughter of the third Baron Kenyon of nearby Gredington, in 1892. Designed by John Douglas and Douglas Fordham, architects of Chester, as accommodation for widows with an integral labourer's cottage. Sold by the estate in 1954.
Exterior
A symmetrically laid out complex of three flats on an E-plan with single storey widows cottages to the east and west linked to a two-storey labourer's cottage in the centre, all designed in a vernacular revival manner. Timber-framed construction with whitened brick nogging, on brick plinth. Clay tiled roof and three red brick chimney stacks. Date "1892" carved into tie-beam on front elevation of western cottage. Entrance to widow's cottages to the side elevations. Wooden casement windows with small-panes, mostly of three-lights, throughout.
Reason for designation
Listed as an interesting example of late C19 philanthropic building combining imaginative planning with traditional design.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St Mary MagdeleneReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Lychgate to Church of Saint Mary MagdaleneReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Tallarn Green Moated SiteMoated Siteunder 1 mi
- Tallarn Green Temperance RoomInstitutionalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.