The Old Vicarage, Llangollen, Denbighshire

Coordinates

Latitude: 52.9687 / 52°58'7"N

Longitude: -3.0946 / 3°5'40"W

OS Eastings: 326584

OS Northings: 341821

OS Grid: SJ265418

Mapcode National: GBR 71.K4S5

Mapcode Global: WH785.FMMZ

Plus Code: 9C4RXW94+F5

Entry Name: The Old Vicarage

Listing Date: 11 June 1998

Last Amended: 11 June 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 19956

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300019956

Location: Situated on W side of by-road between Trevor and Plas-yn-pentre, 350 m SW of Pont Cysylltau.

County: Denbighshire

Town: Llangollen

Community: Llangollen

Locality: Trevor Isaf

Built-Up Area: Trevor

Traditional County: Denbighshire

Tagged with: Clergy house

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History

Mainly early C19 house built on to an earlier structure. The house is shown on the 1838 Tithe map as Trevor Cottage occupied by Rev Hugh Owen.

Exterior

Rubble stone walls with squared quoins, hipped slate, double-pile roof with minimal overhang, clay ridge tiles and two modern red brick gable chimney-stacks; roof valley filled-in later with felt roof. Two-storey, three-window range. Slightly off-centre doorway with pointed arch and brick voussoirs, 6 panelled door and Gothick tracery overlight. Tall casement windows with pointed arches and brick voussoirs, Gothick tracery and thin glazing bars; 18-pane windows on ground floor; 14-pane outer windows on 1st floor; repaired middle 1st floor 13-pane window. Rubble stone to E elevation with inserted square-headed 4-pane sash window. Plain W elevation, lime washed. N elevation has all modern windows and door.

Interior

Roughly square overall plan which incorporates earlier part of house at rear. Central passage with stairs in later part of house with timber stud partitions to Living Room and slightly larger Parlour. At end of passage 2 steps lead up to earlier rear part of house with solid partition walls. Remains of earlier window in cross-wall between front and rear parts.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a well-preserved small house of Regency character with distinctive front elevation.

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Other nearby listed buildings

I Pont Cysylltau
Situated near a looping bend in River Dee between Trevor and Froncysyllte.
II Wood Bank
Situated on hillside between B5434 and Llangollen Canal, overlooking the Dee valley and Pont Cysyllte. Although the rear of house is built tight against the canal bank the gardens at front have been
II Kilns at Wood Bank
Situated in grounds of and at rear of Wood Bank on hillside between B5434 and Llangollen Canal.
I Pontcysyllte Aqueduct
Located over the River Dee between Trevor and Froncysyllte.
II Stables at Argoed Hall
Immediately to N of Argoed Hall which is set in its own wooded grounds high above a bend in the River Dee and to the N of A5. Reached along short drive.
II Bridge No. 34 over Llangollen canal near Plas-yn-pentre
Carries lane over Llangollen canal about 200m N of Trevor Mill.
II Argoed Hall
Set in its own wooded grounds high above a bend of the River Dee and N of the A5. Approached along a short drive.
II* Plas yn y pentre
Situated in the Vale of Llangollen on by-road between Trevor and Trevor Uchaf, approximately 1km SW of Pont Cysylltau.

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The Old Vicarage

A Grade II Listed Building in Llangollen, Denbighshire