Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
8 Well Street
Holywell, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Holywell, Flintshire, designated on 13 January 1987.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 13 January 1987
- Town
- Holywell
- Community
- Holywell
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.27457, -3.22293
- Cadw reference
- 493
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)
- 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)
Cadw's description
Location
Close to the NW end of High Street and with gable end facing modern road.
History
Probably ca 1600 with C19 remodelling; modern restoration.
Exterior
2-storey and attic, 2-window stucco front with quoins; slate roof (raised in C19 work) and red brick chimney stack to left end. Gabled dormers, with ornamented bargeboards, rising through eaves. Horned sash windows with architraves, small-pane to upper sashes; broad shopfront, offset to left. Rubble gable end (and rear wall), eaves raised in red brick, now rendered; 2-lightly chamfered stone mullioned windows. Brick lean-to extensions at rear.
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Interior
Shop interior retains two stop-chamfered cross beams (with ironwork supports), rubble walled cellar with front offset opening (original street doorway?) and remains of rear spiral staircase. Chimney breast within gable wall; arched staicase opening to 1st floor and dressed stone chimneypiece.
3-bay roof with reused trusses, collars, tie-beams and trenched purlins.
Reason for designation
Listed as one of the few remaining town centre houses to retain substantial sub-medieval detail
Group value with No 1
Nearby in the register
- 1 Well StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 1Commercialunder 1 mi
- 1ACommercialunder 1 mi
- 2ACommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.