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.
Date of Designation
16/11/1962
Date of Amendment
07/05/1998
Name of Property
Bridge Cottages, Hurdle View
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Willington Worthenbury
Location
Located next to the road on the south-eastern edge of Tallarn Green at Hurdle View, as the ground begins to rise from the Y-junction at the end of the main road through Tallarn Green.
History
A C17 timber-framed, lobby-entry dwelling now divided into two small cottages.
Exterior
Single-storey and attic box-framed dwelling with whitened brick nogging. Central brick chimney stack and a corrugated metal sheet roof covering thatch. Two 2-light casement windows to front and a small wndow added to right end; further casement to north end gable. Modern doors to front, opposite the stack and at extreme left end.
Interior
The left hand cottage retains heavy chamfered axial beam to single ground floor room. Fireplace and winding stair constructed c1950. Attic bedroom with exposed heavy purlins. The right hand cottage is said to have been recently refurbished.
Reason for designation
Listed as a surviving example of a C17 timber-framed rural dwelling.
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