Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Plas Ucha Farmhouse
Nercwys, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Plas Ucha, Nercwys, Flintshire, designated on 6 November 1962.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 6 November 1962
- Locality
- Plas Ucha
- Community
- Nercwys
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.12484, -3.14811
- Cadw reference
- 315
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
To the S of Nercwys village. Located on the S side of a lane leading off to the W at the lower end of Fordd Nercwys, and set back behind a dwarf-walled front garden.
Exterior
A 2-storey second-half C17 rubble-built farmhouse under a steeply-pitched slate roof with slightly oversailing eaves. The building has recently been heavily restored and all fenestration and entrances have been renewed in C17 style. Plain end chimneys. Near- symmetrical 5-bay facade with central Tudor-arched entrance with moulded and stopped jambs and returned moulded label. Modern boarded door. Wooden leaded cross-windows with stone cills and lintels, those to ground floor with labels also. To the L (W) a flush half-gable wing, the main roof hipped at their intersection. Smaller entrance as before to R with 2-light mullioned window to L. Labels as before. Above, a similar 3-light mullioned window. Modern single-storey extension to L of rear.
Interior
Heavily-moulded fireplace breastsummer to ground floor L room. Stair rising through 2 storeys with close string, turned balusters, moulded rail and stopped ovolo-moulded newels with finials.
Reason for designation
Hubbard, Clwyd, 406.
Nearby in the register
- Barn at Plas Ucha FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Adjoining Farm Buildings to east of Trefrwd FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Coach-House and Stable Block at Trefrwd FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
- Trefrwd FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.