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The King's Head PH

Holywell, Flintshire, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Holywell, Flintshire, designated on 19 August 1991.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of The King's Head PH, Holywell, Flintshire, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1896 · 96 Liverpool (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0
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