Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
White Cottage
Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Hawarden, Flintshire, designated on 16 November 1994.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 16 November 1994
- Community
- Hawarden
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.17124, -3.04616
- Cadw reference
- 15104
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "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).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 108 Flint (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 108 Flint (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set back from the road and adjoining Rose Cottage to the E
Exterior
A small late C16 or early C17 3 bay cruck-framed hall house; single storey with rubble-stone walls. Baffle-entry plan with (apparently) contemporary central stack. Thatched roof with attic dormers and rebuilt brick chimney. Rendered asymmetrical entrance front of stone, with a R gable, partly rebuilt in brick, and with brick copings. Further modern chimney to R. Flush entrance with modern stable door. Flanking 12-pane flush casements to ground floor and attick dormers. Similar windows to the L with a further 6-pane casement window to far left. Further recessed entrance to R with door as before and 6-pane flush casement to R.
Interior
3 bays still discernable (parlour, hall, service) with beamed ceiling to the parlour and modern sub-division to hall. Large chamfered bressumer to hall inglenook.
Reason for designation
Included as an early and scarce example of its type.
Nearby in the register
- Squire's Thatched (Formaly listed as Thatched Cottages)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Industrial Tramway, Near BuckleyTramroadunder 1 mi
- Gatepiers at former St John's Lodge, Hawarden EstateGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Old ParsonageDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.