Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Fox Inn
Ysceifiog, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 31 January 2001
- Locality
- Ysceifiog
- Town
- Holywell
- Community
- Ysceifiog
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.23415, -3.27242
- Cadw reference
- 24671
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
On the N side of the main road through the village, approximately 100m NW of the church.
History
Early C19 and shown as a public house on the 1849 Tithe map.
Exterior
A 2-storey late Georgian public house of rendered walls painted white and renewed slate roof with brick end stack to the L and stone stack to the centre-R. The original building is double fronted with hornless sash windows and central boarded door. A single-bay addition on the R side has a single horned sash window in the lower storey, while its gable end has inserted windows. Behind it is an added brick outshut.
The L gable end is double-pitched. Beneath the R-hand gable is an inserted window lower L, while beneath the L-hand gable is a small-pane hornless sash under a brick segmental head in the lower storey and a large inserted window above it.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed as a late Georgian house retaining early character, and for group value with other listed items in the centre of Ysceifiog village.
Nearby in the register
- Stable at Fox InnAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- School House, including forecourt railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ysceifiog Community HallEducationunder 1 mi
- Church of St MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.