Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Waen Farm
Ysceifiog, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Rhes-y-cae, Holywell, Ysceifiog, Flintshire, designated on 31 January 2001.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 31 January 2001
- Locality
- Rhes-y-cae
- Town
- Holywell
- Community
- Ysceifiog
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.23086, -3.22516
- Cadw reference
- 24685
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
Approximately 1.3km E of Lixwm village and set back on the N side of a minor road between Lixwm and Rhes-y-cae.
History
Probably built in the 1840s and shown on the 1849 Tithe map.
Exterior
A single-storey 3-window house of pebble-dashed walls and slate roof, partly renewed, and rendered stacks to the ends and L of centre. A gabled porch R of centre has a boarded door on its L side and a window renewed to the front. The house has 2-light casement windows with stone sills. Set back against the R gable end is a stable with corrugated iron roof. It has a boarded door to the L, R of which are small wood-mullioned vents beneath the eaves. The rear of the house has a single window on the R side and outshuts.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved distinctive single-storeyed regional house type of the C19, retaining vernacular character.
Nearby in the register
- Christ ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Beehive Pigsty at Peacock FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Round Barrow 180m E of MwccwdRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Bryn IdrisDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.