Rob's Cottage, Greenfield and Arosfa is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 July 1998. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

Rob's Cottage, Greenfield and Arosfa

WRENN ID
tangled-cornice-pearl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wrexham
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 July 1998
Type
Cottage
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Rob’s Cottage, located within the west wing, is a timber-framed building resting on a higher stone sill wall than the central bay and east wing. The timber frame is storey height, without any projecting jetties, and is infilled with painted white material. The gable end truss incorporates diagonal braces above the tie beam. A lateral chimney stack is partly external to the west side. A later lateral entrance door is present, sheltered by a tiled, timber-framed porch.

Greenfield occupies the four westernmost panels of the central hall bay of the original U-plan farmhouse. It is timber-framed and has rendered and whitewashed infill panels that extend three stories in height. The building has a gabled, tiled, timber-framed porch and a 20th-century timber window on the ground floor, along with one small gabled dormer. In 1996, two posts and cross noggings were replaced with oak.

Arosfa's entrance is positioned opposite the stack at the upper end of the former timber-framed hall, likely its original location. It abuts the east wing, which was originally timber-framed with close studding but has had its front and east-side walls replaced with stone, now colourwashed. The entrance is accessed via a tiled, gabled, timber-framed porch. The wing’s windows are two-light timber casement windows and there is an added brick chimney stack.

Rob’s Cottage and Arosfa were not accessible during inspection.

Inside Greenfield, the living room features deeply chamfered cross beams with cut stops that divide the ceiling into four sections, and ogee-moulded minor joists. The cross beam in front of the fireplace is cambered and continues as a deeply chamfered arch over the recess, which was formerly a passage on the south side leading to the original entrance. The fireplace has canted ashlar jambs. The closely timber-framed wall at the lower end, which forms the party wall with Rob's Cottage, is raised on a higher sill. The floor is finished with quarry tiles. A kitchen is attached to the rear, and a boxed early 19th-century staircase leads to the upper floor. The roof is said to have a collar truss on queen struts and supports a single tier of purlins.

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