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
19777
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
07/05/1998
Date of Amendment
07/05/1998
Name of Property
The Old Rectory
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Willington Worthenbury
Town
Wrexham
Locality
Worthenbury
Easting
342091
Northing
346035
Street Side
W
Location
Located in its own grounds off Mulsford Lane, after its junction with the main road through Worthenbury, the B 5069. The Old Rectory is set behind cast-iron Gothic style railings to the top of a low wall of pale yellow bricks with stone gate piers
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Former Rectory originally built in 1657 for the Rev Philip Henry by Judge Puleston of Emral Hall. Rev Henry was Rector of St Deiniol's Church and father of the Non-Conformist scholar Matthew Henry. Enlarged in the Tudor-Gothic style in 1833 but said to incorporate earlier elements. A private residence since 1990.
Exterior
Large two-storey, plus multi-gabled attic, Tudor-Gothic double-pile house with stuccoed elevations under a slate roof. String courses articulate separate floors. Symmetrically composed front elevation. Mixture of sash windows, square-headed Tudor-style windows with mullions and transom, and pointed Gothic openings; small-pane glazing. Square-headed openings have hood-moulds. Projecting two-storey porch to front elevation with 4-centred arch entrance. Paired yellow brick chimney stacks with moulded caps.
Interior
Inspection not possible at time of resurvey.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of an earlier C19 Rectory, also said to incorporate C17 elements.
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