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
1753
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/01/1994
Date of Amendment
31/01/1994
Name of Property
The Cottage
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Acton
Town
Locality
Easting
333762
Northing
351070
Street Side
Location
Set back from the road on the corner of Penymaes Avenue.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
House, designed in 1908 by Allen Foxley of London for Miss Wolstenholme.
Exterior
Vernacular revival style, with roughcast render over brick and red plain tiled roof. One and a half storeyed, L-plan. Original entrance in flat-roofed porch in the rear elevation is now disused. Front elevation has central gable over loggia to ground floor, supported on timber posts. 4-light casement window in gable, and wood mullioned casement and French windows below. Glazed porch in left hand angle. 4-light casement window to right. Stack against rear wall, connected to main roofline by gablet. Return elevation to right comprises 2 gables, with a single upper window in left hand gable, stair window and 2 3-light casement windows in the right. Former range of outbuilding parallel to main range now been rebuilt and incorporated into the house. There have been some alterations to the internal planning, but the original arrangement of rooms nevertheless substantially survives. The original plan provided a central hall with dining room and sitting room to either side, ground floor bathroom, and kitchen and scullery etc in the wing beyond the stairs.
Interior
Reason for designation
A good example of a neo-vernacular cottage, of a type more often associated with the garden city movement.
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