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
18063
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
20/12/1996
Date of Amendment
20/12/1996
Name of Property
Talwrn House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Sesswick
Town
Locality
Pickhill
Easting
338824
Northing
347807
Street Side
N
Location
Situated on the north side of the B5130 close to it's junction with Watery Lane.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Early C19 former farmhouse now divided into two self-contained houses, one of which is empty.
Exterior
Two-storeys, four bays, brick construction under grey slate roof, wide projecting eaves, three chimney stacks with original chimney pots. Front porch with curved barge boards, original doorcase, and internal shutters to side windows. Bay windows to east and west end-walls. Three ground floor, 16-pane, original sash-windows under stone lintels to front elevation are recessed into shallow relief semi-circular brick arches. To the second floor are three six-pane original sash-windows and one blind window to the east. To the rear are attached single storey out-houses to the east and west return and stable block with hayloft over and curved barge board forming a rear yard.
Interior
Internal inspection not possible at the time of survey in 1996, said to contain few original features following subdivision.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of a late C18/early C19 farmhouse retaining much of its original external character.
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