Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
1 North Street
Caerwys, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Caerwys, Flintshire, designated on 19 July 2002.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 July 2002
- Locality
- Caerwys
- Community
- Caerwys
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.24649, -3.30755
- Cadw reference
- 26768
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
Fronting the road opposite the former market square.
History
Built in the third quarter of the C19 and shown on the 1871 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
Belongs to a group of 1-2 North Street.
A symmetrical pair of 2-storey double-fronted houses, of rubble stone with bigger quoins, slate roof behind coped gables and brick end stacks. Openings in the lower storey have segmental heads with voussoirs, and all windows have stone sills. The central doorway to each house has a renewed boarded door with vertical ribs. In the lower storey are 16-pane horizontal-sliding sash windows. The upper storey has similar but shorter 12-pane windows beneath the eaves. Against the L gable end is a single-storey projection (now a shop).
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed as a pair of C19 houses retaining strong C19 traditional regional character and external detail in a prominent location at the centre of the town.
Nearby in the register
- 2 North StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Old CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Manor HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Berwyn CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.