Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pistyll
Tremeirchion, Denbighshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Rhuallt, Tremeirchion, Denbighshire, designated on 9 April 2002.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 9 April 2002
- Locality
- Rhuallt
- Community
- Tremeirchion
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.26184, -3.38543
- Cadw reference
- 26472
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesNational Library of Scotland
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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1930 · OS Popular Edition 1919-1947 (National Library of Scotland)
Cadw's description
Location
Set back on east side of Tremeirchion Road, Rhuallt, to rear of former croquet lawn terracing.
History
Pistyll consists of an early C19 main range built in front of an earlier house of uncertain age. A window from the earlier house, not in situ, has been preserved and has the date 1754 scratched on one pane. Fenestration of main range later C19.
The landscaping of the front grounds of Pistyll, with a croquet lawn, indicates a house of gentry status in the C19.
Exterior
A two-storey house consisting of two parallel ranges, with a short central wing and informal additions at the rear. Rendered and painted cream, but with raised white-painted corner strips and window surrounds at the front. Slate roofs with rendered end-chimneys to both of the parallel ranges. The main (west) elevation is of four windows, with a symmetrical composition of door and two canted bay windows at left under a single roof. Semi-glazed door and overlight with pilasters. The front windows of the bays, and the upper and right windows, are 12-pane sash-windows. The windows of the front elevation, and several at the rear and side, have external modern secondary glazing.
Three nine-pane unequal-sash windows survive at the rear of the parallel ranges.
Interior
A difference in floor level between the two parallel front ranges confirms the construction of the house in at least two phases.
Reason for designation
A gentleman's house which has retained its early C19 character notwithstanding secondary glazing.
Nearby in the register
- Steps and gatepiers of Rhuallt HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Rhuallt HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- GlanyrafonAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Dovecote at Rhuallt HallDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.