Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Tallarn Green Temperance Room
Willington Worthenbury, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Institutional
- Date of designation
- 7 May 1998
- Locality
- Tallarn Green
- Town
- Wrexham
- Community
- Willington Worthenbury
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.99368, -2.82898
- Cadw reference
- 19781
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 off the main Tallarn Green road, and on the edge of fields farmed from Pear Tree Farm. Hidden behind modern house to road front.
History
A purpose-built Methodist Temperance Room, dated 1890. Sunter Harrison records Lord Kenyon (of Gredington) as an active promoter of the Temperance Movement as were some other local landowners. Given the proximity to the Kenyon Almshouses it is likely that he paid for this building.
Exterior
Single-storey detached rectangular red brick meeting hall of four bays with slate roof. Three bays filled with original semi-circular headed multipane windows with metal glazing bars. One bay taken up with entrance door and carved stone tablet above bearing inscription "Temperance Room 1890", small second door to south-east end. Thin brick buttress. End walls blank.
Interior
Interior not accessible at time of survey.
Reason for designation
Listed as a scarce and intact example of a late C19 Temperance building.
Nearby in the register
- Lychgate to Church of Saint Mary MagdaleneReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St Mary MagdeleneReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Kenyon CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tallarn Green Moated SiteMoated Siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.