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Latitude: 52.9858 / 52°59'8"N
Longitude: -2.7575 / 2°45'27"W
OS Eastings: 349240
OS Northings: 343425
OS Grid: SJ492434
Mapcode National: GBR 7H.HW4R
Mapcode Global: WH89G.M63W
Plus Code: 9C4VX6PR+7X
Entry Name: Kil Green Cottage
Listing Date: 20 October 2005
Last Amended: 20 October 2005
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 85470
ID on this website: 300085470
Location: Set back on the S side of a minor road approximately 400m WSW of Higher Wych.
County: Wrexham
Community: Bronington
Community: Bronington
Locality: Higher Wych
Traditional County: Flintshire
Tagged with: Cottage
Iscoyd Park was purchased in 1843 by Philip Lake Godsal, a Cheltenham coach builder, and comprised an estate of 202 acres (82 hectares) including 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'. The latter smallholdings include many that were built on the site of earlier smallholdings.
Kil Green Cottage is a smallholding dated 1892, although it replaced an earlier smallholding known as Higher Dirtwick (Dirtwick is an old name for Higher Wych), which is shown on the 1873 Ordnance Survey. The present cottage and its shippon are shown on the 1911 Ordnance Survey.
A 1½-storey cottage of hand-moulded brick with tile roof on overhanging eaves and with dentil verge, brick stack and 2 inserted skylights. Windows are segmental-headed small-pane iron-frame windows incorporating pivoting lights. The gable-end front has a boarded door on the R side, which is under a shallow gabled stone head inscribed 'PWG 1892'. The attic has 2 small windows. The R side wall facing the road has 2 windows, and the L side wall a window on the L side and French doors to the R inserted in the position of an original window. The rear gable end has a lean-to with boarded door and window above.
Not inspected.
Listed for its special architectural interest as part of a well-preserved C19 smallholding characteristic of the Iscoyd Park estate style, and for its contribution to the distinctive historic character of the district provided by surviving former estate buildings, which together provide a good example of estate-sponsored improvement.
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