Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Glynne Arms PH
Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 16 November 1994
- Community
- Hawarden
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.18470, -3.02511
- Cadw reference
- 15060
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Standing prominently on the street-line, opposite the castle entrance gates.
History
Early C19.
Exterior
A 2-storey inn with shallow-pitched graded slate-stone roof with lead flashing. Plain eaves cornice. 2 plain brick chimneys. Facade of dressed sandstone: 6 bays of which the 5 right-hand ones are advanced in an almost symmetrical arrangement. Single-storey open porch on tuscan columns with moulded cornice. 6-panelled door with delicate glazed fanlight above. 16-pane recessed, flat-arched sash windows, 2 pairs to either side of porch with single one above. Plain string-course and plinth. L-hand bay with coped gable to the W. Single ground and first floor windows as before. Small modern skylight. Painted cills and voussoirs throughout. Modern decorative iron-work flanking most windows and similar decoration above porch with a hanging sign.
Later extensions to rear, including a 2-storey mid C19 brick coach house. Wide, depressed-arched opening with 12-pane casement above. Slated roof with plain end-chimney to S gable.
Interior
Largely modernised interior.
Reason for designation
Listed for its important contribution to the village-scape in its prominent location and for its unaltered facade.
Nearby in the register
- 1. Rear Courtyard Ranges at Glynne ArmsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former ShamblesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gladstone Memorial FountainCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box on the corner with Rectory LaneCommunicationsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.