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
19780
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
07/05/1998
Date of Amendment
07/05/1998
Name of Property
Kenyon Cottages
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Willington Worthenbury
Town
Wrexham
Locality
Tallarn Green
Easting
344673
Northing
344115
Street Side
Location
Located on the south-west side of the main road through Tallarn Green, at the top of the village and adjacent to the village school.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built at the expense of Henrietta Kenyon, daughter of the third Baron Kenyon of nearby Gredington, in 1892. Designed by John Douglas and Douglas Fordham, architects of Chester, as accommodation for widows with an integral labourer's cottage. Sold by the estate in 1954.
Exterior
A symmetrically laid out complex of three flats on an E-plan with single storey widows cottages to the east and west linked to a two-storey labourer's cottage in the centre, all designed in a vernacular revival manner. Timber-framed construction with whitened brick nogging, on brick plinth. Clay tiled roof and three red brick chimney stacks. Date "1892" carved into tie-beam on front elevation of western cottage. Entrance to widow's cottages to the side elevations. Wooden casement windows with small-panes, mostly of three-lights, throughout.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as an interesting example of late C19 philanthropic building combining imaginative planning with traditional design.
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