Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Old Parsonage
Penyffordd, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Penymynydd, Penyffordd, Flintshire, designated on 5 June 1997.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 5 June 1997
- Locality
- Penymynydd
- Community
- Penyffordd
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.15859, -3.04111
- Cadw reference
- 18471
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
Situated in its own grounds c500m NW of St. John the Baptist’s Church, reached from a short drive running E from the A550 at the N end of Penymynydd.
History
The parsonage was built in 1846, possibly to the design of John Buckler who designed the neighbouring church of St John the Baptist in 1843. It is now privately owned.
Exterior
Restrained Elizabethan style, fine coursed masonry, slate roof, stone parapet and kneelers to gable ends, and circular buff terracotta chimneys which are grouped to give picturesque effect. Subrectangular plan with L shaped service range attached to the NW side, 2 storeys. The main elevation faces S towards the church. It is symmetrical with a central chimney rising from the gable and a central first-floor stone oriel with a moulded base which is flanked by 6-pane windows with label moulds. There is a central entrance with overlight flanked by tall tripartite windows. Right hand return elevation is gabled and has a window with label-mould in the upper floor and a bay window to the ground floor. Rear elevation has twin gabled roofs. The service wing is a low range which partly encloses a courtyard at the rear of the house.
Interior
Interior not inspected at the time of the 1997 survey.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good little-altered example of an early Victorian parsonage of some architectural distinction.
Group value with the church of St. John the Baptist.
Nearby in the register
- St John the Baptist's ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- White CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Squire's Thatched (Formaly listed as Thatched Cottages)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Warren HallNo class recorded1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.