Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
1226
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/12/1989
Date of Amendment
22/12/1989
Name of Property
Willow House (including Former Coach House to right)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Llangollen
Town
Locality
Easting
321444
Northing
341892
Street Side
Location
Set in the slope at the bottom of the hill at the Y-junction with Hall Street.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
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.
Reason for designation
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