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
07/05/1998
Date of Amendment
07/05/1998
Name of Property
Shop Cottage
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Willington Worthenbury
Location
Located in the centre of the village on the north side of the main road (B 5069) and attached to the former Post Office and Malt House.
History
Early C19 village workers cottage, formerly used as the village shop. Said to have been owned by the merchant who lived in Admiralty House. Undergoing internal renovation at time of survey in 1996.
Exterior
One of two cottages forming a terrace of what formerly had been four. Two-storey painted brown brick cottage under slate roof with brick chimney stack. Toothed dentilated brick eaves. One door with small paned lights to top. Two near-flush two-light casement windows to front elevation, that to the ground floor is camber-headed, similar camber-headed window to the gable end.
Reason for designation
Listed together with The Malt House (including the former Post Office) and Admiralty House as a prominent historic group in the centre of the village.
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