Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hillside
Halkyn, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Halkyn, Holywell, Flintshire, designated on 31 January 2002.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 31 January 2002
- Locality
- Halkyn
- Town
- Holywell
- Community
- Halkyn
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.23084, -3.18430
- Cadw reference
- 26151
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 150m SE of the parish church.
History
A mid C19 cottage built by the Grosvenor Estate and first shown on the 1870 Ordnance Survey. It was enlarged in the late C19 by heightening the original rear outshut and rebuilding the roof at a different pitch in order to create an attic storey. The Grosvenor family owned an extensive estate and mineral rights in the Halkyn area. Halkyn Castle was built for the second Earl Grosvenor in 1824-7 and was used as an occasional residence. The Earl was later made Duke of Westminster.
Exterior
A 2-storey single-fronted cottage of rubble stone, slate roof, and stone stack to the R which is partly rebuilt. A rear outshut is under a catslide roof. The front has a doorway to the L with stone segmental head, and a late C19 boarded door. Windows are offset to the R and are small-pane horizontal sliding sashes with stone sills, under stone segmental head in the lower storey but late C19 brick head in the upper storey. In the R gable end is a horizontally-sliding sash window to the attic of the outshut, under a concrete lintel.
An added extension is set well back on the R side of the house. The rear has a 2-light casement beneath a stone lintel, in the R side of which is an added brick wash house.
Interior
The lower storey has a single room with straight stairs at the rear, and a single room in the outshut. The partition between the main room and outshut is a thick stone wall.
Reason for designation
Listed as a small cottage, a type once characteristic of the area, retaining original C19 estate character, and for group value with other associated listed items in the centre Halkyn.
Nearby in the register
- Former Shippon at RosemountAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- RosemountDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lygan y Llan Farmhouse including Forecourt Walls and RailingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Britannia InnCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.