Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Islwyn
Halkyn, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 31 January 2002
- Locality
- Black Brook
- Town
- Holywell
- Community
- Halkyn
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.17964, -3.14809
- Cadw reference
- 26177
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
Approximately 1.5 km SW of Soughton village.
History
Part of the Gwysaney Estate the present house was built in the mid C19 and is first shown on the 1870 Ordnance Survey.
Gwysaney was built in 1603 but the historic character of the estate is derived principally from its redevelopment and enlargement after Philip Davies-Cooke inherited Gwysaney in 1821.
Exterior
Simple Gothic style 2-storey house with a 2-window, symmetrical front, of tooled snecked stone with freestone dressings and steep slate roof with overhanging eaves and barge boards pierced by quatrefoils. A central yellow-brick ridge stack has vertical ribs and corbelled cap in Gwysaney Estate style. Windows have stone mullions and hood moulds. In the lower-storey 3-light windows, while the upper storey has 2-light windows beneath the eaves. The central boarded door has strap hinges and overlight. It is set within a gabled canopy on wooden brackets and stone corbels, with bands of fish-scale slates. The R gable end has a 2-light mullioned window lower R. The L gable end has similar 2-light windows in each storey. Set back from the L gable end is the front of an integral rear wing with outshut and yellow-brick ridge stack. It has a boarded door to the R (in an added glazed porch), 2-light window L and 2-light window above. The rear outshut also has a 2-light window.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed as a C19 estate house retaining original character and for its contribution to the historic character of the Gwysaney Estate.
Nearby in the register
- Ty DrawDomesticunder 1 mi
- 1 Red HousesDomesticunder 1 mi
- 2 Red HousesDomesticunder 1 mi
- 3 Red HousesDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.