85440

 

II  

Designated  

20/10/2005  

20/10/2005  

1 Hall Green Cottages  

 

Wrexham  

Bronington  

 

Iscoyd  

350347  

342148  

 

One of a pair of houses set back from a minor road between Redbrook and Higher Wych, opposite the back drive to Iscoyd Park.  

 

 

Iscoyd Park was purchased in 1843 by Philip Lake Godsal, a Cheltenham coach builder, an estate of 202 acres (82 hectares) comprising mansion house with park, and cottages and smallholdings. Over subsequent decades farms were acquired from neighbouring landowners, mainly during the ownership of Philip William Godsal, who inherited in 1858 and died in 1896. In 1895 it was reported to the Royal Commission on Land in Wales and Monmouthshire that the Iscoyd Park estate, now expanded to 887 acres (359 hectares), had 9 farms. Of these 'six new farmhouses, bricked and slated, and homesteads to them, have been built new entirely' and 'sixteen cottages and buildings for pigs and cows have been erected'. Originally a single dwelling, Hall Green Farm is indicated on estate plans of 1781 and the 1830s, and is shown on the 1838 Tithe map. It was still a single house at the time of the 1873 Ordnance Survey but was subsequently subdivided into 2 dwellings for estate workers.  

 

 

Listed for its special architectural interest as an C18 house later subdivided, an unusual transformation, retaining definite early character, and for its contribution to the historical integrity of buildings of the Iscoyd Park estate.  

1-2 Hall Green Cottages A pair of reflected pair symmetrical single-fronted 2½-storey cottages, of white-painted brick, slate roof on sawtooth eaves, and end brick stacks. A central gabled porch has 2 round-headed openings. No 2 on the L side has a fielded-panel door. No 1 on the R side has a half-glazed door. Windows are segmental-headed 3-light casements. No 1 has a 2-storey lean-to in the R gable end, with glazed small-pane window in the lower storey (formerly a doorway) and 2-light window above. In the side wall is a 12-pane sash window and replacement window in an earlier opening. The gable end of the main range has, to the R of the lean-to, a single-light lower-storey window, 2-light window in the upper storey, and in the attic single-light and 2-light windows. In the L gable end No 2 has a 12-pane hornless sash window on the R, an inserted window on the L side above an added lean-to, and a small attic casement. The lean-to has a replacement door and 2-light window, and further L is a slightly higher lean-to against a lower rear wing, which has dentil eaves and end stack, and retains an iron-frame casement window. No 1 has a rear lean-to porch.