Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bromfield House
Mold, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Mold, Flintshire, designated on 24 July 2002.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 24 July 2002
- Community
- Mold
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.16066, -3.13699
- Cadw reference
- 26793
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
Opposite Broncoed Lane, set well back from road in wooded garden.
History
Mid C19 house, known to have been occupied in 1871 by William Beale Marston, proprietor of nearby Bromfield Colliery, and a local oil works. In 1870, house known as Bromfield Villa.
Exterior
Two storey house with attached outbuildings. Stucco, scribed as ashlar, stone plinth and dressings. Slate roofs. Casement windows with marginal glazing bars. Elaborate fretted bargeboards. Entrance front faces SW. Tudor-arched doorway with exposed stone architrave and hood mould; part-glazed panelled door; window above; to L, small gable enclosing window; broader window on ground floor. To R, projecting gabled bay with rectangular first floor window above ground floor shallow splayed bay window.
Left (NW) elevation has, to R, gabled block with window to each floor, and to L, similar advanced block with 3-light window on first floor, and on ground floor, altered opening with tripartite sash window. SE elevation in same style.
To rear, service block, and at right angles to this (running SE-NW), lower attached 2-storey range of brick outbuildings. At NW end of this block, at right angles, open shed with slate roof.
Interior
Much interior detailing remains including panelled doors and doorcases, skirtings, ceiling cornices and roses, shutters to windows. Wooden stair with square newels.
Reason for designation
Well-preserved mid-C19 villa retaining most of its interior and exterior character with connections with local industrialist.
Nearby in the register
- Tre BeiriddDomesticunder 1 mi
- BBC Radio ClwydDomesticunder 1 mi
- Britannia Inn P.H.Commercialunder 1 mi
- 55 Wrexham StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.