Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Retaining Walls flanking sunken Servants' Pathway at Hartsheath
Leeswood and Pontblyddyn, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Hartsheath, Leeswood and Pontblyddyn, Flintshire, designated on 5 December 1997.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 5 December 1997
- Locality
- Hartsheath
- Community
- Leeswood and Pontblyddyn
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.13484, -3.06855
- Cadw reference
- 19106
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales
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 to the NW of Hartsheath Hall curving and in part forming the Ha-ha.
History
Probably early C19, sunken servants' pathway, constructed to allow access for servants past the main front of Hartsheath Hall without being seen from inside the house.
Exterior
Curving sunken pathway flanked by stone rubble walls, that to SE slightly higher. The pathway also acts as a Ha-ha to the adjacent parkland and runs parallel to the main driveway, around the front of the house and to the service wing. The walls run NW to a point where it meets the main drive and SE to the point where the main drive becomes a track.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well preserved example of an unusual country-house estate feature and for group value with the other buildings on the Hartsheath Estate.
Nearby in the register
- Hartsheath HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ice Tunnels immediately to NE of HartsheathDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bridge carrying main drive over Servants' Pathway including gate piers at HartsheathDomesticunder 1 mi
- Coach-house and Stables to NE of HartsheathDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.