Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The King's Head PH
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
- 53.27272, -3.22088
- Cadw reference
- 452
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
Detached to left, at the top (SE) end of the street by Victoria Square.
History
Earlier C19; late-Georgian
Exterior
3-storey, 3-window painted pebbledash front with plinth and cemented band courses (one stone) below sills. Hipped platform slate roof with bracketed and boarded eaves; red brick chimney stacks. Horned 9-pane sashes to 2nd floor, 12-pane to 1st floor centre flanked by tripartite small pane windows with panelled aprons; channelled ground floor with segmental headed windows and similar aprons (boarded up at time of inspection - April 1990). Broad central porch with parapet pierced with round arched openings; paired pilasters flank entrance with half-glazed double doors and sidelights; glazed sides to porch. PH sign to 1st floor left of centre. 3-bay left side elevation with similar 9 and 12-pane sash windows; right hand windows (near front) blocked up and those on ground floor boarded up. Stepped down is a 2-storey, 3+2-window cross range along which bandcourse is continued in cement; similar detail.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Vron Chambers (John Morris & Co.)Commercialunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box outside The Post OfficeCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- 1Domesticunder 1 mi
- 2Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.