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
1585
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
07/06/1963  
Date of Amendment
08/12/1995  
Name of Property
Tan-y-Llan  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Wrexham  
Community
Esclusham  
Town
 
Locality
Bronwylfa  
Easting
328397  
Northing
348057  
Street Side
 
Location
Down a track immediately S of Bronwylfa, 500m approx. W of the B5426 W of Talwrn  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
The cottage incorporates a cruck in one gable end, but it is not clear whether this is the relic of an earlier building on the site, or whether it was erected as an integral part of the present building. Other features of the cottage suggest that it is probably late C17 or early C18  

Exterior
Small 2-unit, one and a half storeyed cottage, with cruck frame exposed in upper gable wall: the broad blades have a saddle; spurs to queen-posts above the main tie beam, and a king post above the collar; front wall rendered over rubble; graded slate roofs with gable-end stacks (that on upper gable clearly added). Central entrance in added gabled porch. Flanking windows are 2-light casements with single ring cambered heads. Dormers within the roof also have 2-light casements, and bargeboards with pendant finials. Small leaded light window partly cut by chimney on upper gable end. Continuous outshut to rear.  

Interior
Staircase rises in a straight flight to the rear of the entrance. Roughly chamfered lateral beams to ground floor, and exposed central truss with raking struts and wind-braces to either side.  

Reason for designation
An excellent and well-preserved example of a small vernacular cottage, and of cruck construction.  

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