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Llanasa, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Gwespyr, Holywell, Llanasa, Flintshire, designated on 6 November 1962.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 6 November 1962
- Locality
- Gwespyr
- Town
- Holywell
- Community
- Llanasa
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.33861, -3.33469
- Cadw reference
- 289
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 1883 map "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1885 · OS One-Inch (Hills) 1885-1903 (National Library of Scotland)
- 1896 · 96 Liverpool (Hills) (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
On the E side of Gwespyr overlooking the Dee Estuary to the N.
History
A small C17 2-unit house, part of which was raised in the final quarter of the C19. The 1899 Ordnance Survey shows the building as 2 dwellings, but it is now a single dwelling.
Exterior
A 2-storey 2-window house of limewashed rubble walls and steep slate roof. An external stack is on the R side. The narrower L-hand unit, which has a steeper roof pitch and lower eaves, has an end stack. The main unit on the R side has a casement window upper centre, a small-pane hornless sash window lower R, with stone sill and drip mould, and a gabled porch on the L side with a boarded door. A lean-to to the R gable end has a small-pane window in an earlier opening. The L-hand unit has a 2-light small-pane casement in the lower storey under a plain drip stone and a single casement upper centre below the eaves. Against the L gable end is a massive raked buttress.
The rear, which has a continuous eaves line, has an inserted doorway lower R with boarded door, L of which is an added lean-to and small-pane window further L. In the upper storey is a fixed light on the R side, and a 2-light casement upper L.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed as a rare-surviving small C17 cottage retaining early character and detail.
Nearby in the register
- Gwespyr War MemorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- 2 Pentre UchaCommercialunder 1 mi
- 1 Pentre UchaDomesticunder 1 mi
- HenllystanDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.