Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ivy Cottage
Bagillt, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 8 December 1995
- Community
- Bagillt
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.26053, -3.18039
- Cadw reference
- 16909
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
Approximately 100m N of Gadlys Woods Farmhouse.
Exterior
Now two attached cottages, but once Smithy and Smith's House probably built in C18 by London Lead Company, said to be the first to use coal to smelt lead, and producer of much of the silver for English coinage in the early C18.
From S, Ivy cottage is to R. One storey plus attic, two windows, brick (painted) slate roof, brick chimney to R. Attic casement windows set across eaves, catslide roofs. On ground floor, 2-light window to L, 3-light window to R; lean-to to R with door. To rear, one-storey ground floor extension; corner chimney (R), small windows adjacent to stack.
From S, Smithy Cottage is to L. Painted brick with slate roof, rendered central chimney. Doorway to R has 12-pane sash to L, beyond which are 2 Yorkshire sashes; to L again, store with corrugated roof. Rear has slate roof, and 2 windows, casement to L, and Yorkshire sash to R; plain end gable.
A rare example of rural industrial building from this period.
Group value with other nearby cottages and Gadlys Woods Farm.
Nearby in the register
- Smithy CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Porch CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gadlys Woods FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Rose CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.