Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
4 (Exchange House)
Holywell, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 19 August 1991
- Community
- Holywell
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.27417, -3.22322
- Cadw reference
- 441
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "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).
Cadw's description
Location
Stepped up from neighbouring properties close to corner with Cross Street.
History
Dated 1702; late-Georgian remodelling (probably mid C19).
Exterior
3-storey, 3-window scribed render front; rusticated quoins, with vermiculated ornament above fascia level. Steep hipped slate roof with unusually deep moulded timber cornice; formerly had central chimney stack. Small-pane sash windows with vermiculated architraves, figureheads to keystones on 1st floor and brackets below cornice on 2nd floor; small lower sashes to 1st floor with glazing bars removed. Datestone to centre. Modern shop fronts. Rubble left hand side and red brick with further small-pane sash windows.
Interior
Interior altered.
Reason for designation
Listed for its prominence in the High Street and for its 1702 origins.
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 6 (Exchange House)Commercialunder 1 mi
- 2Commercialunder 1 mi
- 8 (Harris & Rushton)Commercialunder 1 mi
- Pillar Box on Pavement (outside no. 6 High Street)Communicationsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.