Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Treuddyn Village Stores
Treuddyn, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 1 April 1998
- Locality
- Treuddyn
- Town
- Mold
- Community
- Treuddyn
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.11471, -3.11719
- Cadw reference
- 19651
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
Prominently sited to the west of the Parish Church on the corner of a road which connects Ffordd-y-Bont to Ffordd-y-Llan in the centre of the village.
History
Mid C19 purpose built village store and house. In addition to being a retailers "The Stores" were the wholesale centre for the Treuddyn Farmers Association which supplied most of the local farms.
Exterior
Two-storey plus attic house with attached shop and storage above. Rendered brick with moulded architraves to windows, and rendered quoins on a shallow plinth. Slate roof with three chimney stacks of pale yellow brick. Decorative barge-boards. The principle elevation to the house is classically composed with centrally placed classical doorcase, five nine-pane sash windows. To the shop elevation are six twelve-pane sash windows and one nine-pane sash to the attic. At ground floor a wooden classical shop front with centrally placed door, bracketed architrave and two windows with glazing bars removed. To the return is the goods entrance with a canopied hoist to the first floor.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as an intact example of a mid C19 village stores.
Nearby in the register
- The Old Hand Inn at BeaverbrookCommercialunder 1 mi
- St Mary's ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Sundial in the churchyard of St Mary's ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Carreg-y-llech standing stoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.