Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Glynne Cottage
Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 16 November 1994
- Community
- Hawarden
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.18244, -3.02188
- Cadw reference
- 15019
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Overlooking the park to the N, and secluded in its own grounds.
History
History: Built in 1872-3 for the unmarried daughters of the Reverend Henry Glynne, rector of Hawarden. It was purchased by the Hawarden estate in 1912.
Exterior
A large brick and timber-framed gabled house on 2 storeys, in Victorian Tudor style. H plan. Medium-pitched tiled roof with brick chimneys with simple, moulded stone caps. Central, diagonally-set tripple chimneys. Red brick ground floor with projecting plinth capped in chamfered stone. Decorative timber-framing to first floor with ornately carved wooden string-course depicting birds and foliage. Advanced gables to L and R with ornately-carved barge-boards and string-course with zoomorphic interlace. L gable with lozenge-framing and wooden, 6-light mullioned and transomed window, stopped and chamfered and with moulded hood and cill brackets. R gable with off-set quatrefoil framing and window as before. To the L of centre a pointed-arched, chamfered entrance with recessed 6 panel door and decorative iron handle. Above this a cross-window beneath a small gable with barge-boards as before. Central section with zebra framing and 2 further cross-windows at first floor, equally spaced to the R. Large 12-light window to the R of the entrance. A canted bay of 6 and 2 lights to the ground floor of the L gable. 8-light cross windows to that of the R, with a 12-light bay on its E return.
N front with gabled cross wings to L and R with detailing as before. Large square tower projecting outwards to R with first floor decorative framing as before. Helm roof with N-facing gablet and decorative weathervane. Off-set entrance with shouldered and chamfered head.
Adjoining coach house to W, now modernised as garage.
Interior
Interior: Contemporary pine joinery throughout with panelled, chamfered doors. Well staircase with highly-carved foliate scroll-work and ball finials to chamfered and stopped newel posts. Ornately carved stone fireplaces in main ground-floor rooms with zoomorphic detail in the spandrels and Gothic glazed tiles.
Reason for designation
A lavishly-detailed and complete mid-Victorian grange.
Nearby in the register
- 62 Glynne WayDomesticunder 1 mi
- Wynt LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Retaining Wall to StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 41 Glynne WayDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.