Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Abbey House
Holywell, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 August 1991
- Town
- Greenfield
- Community
- Holywell
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.28881, -3.20928
- Cadw reference
- 509
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
Reached off Greenfield Road down lane to SE of the Alpha United
Exterior
Reformed Church. Land drops away steeply to left down to the Holywell Stream.
Earlier C19 (shown on 1833 map). 2-storey, 3-window pebbledash front with cemented quoins, plinth and windows surrounds. Hipped asbestos slate roof with pebbledash chimney stack. 12-pane sashes with lugged architraves. Broad surround to entrance - porch removed; round arched entrance with fluted pilasters; 6-octagonal panels to door (as at Plas-yn-Morfa) with traceried fanlight. 2+1-window left hand side with 12-pane sashes and inserted modern window. Added bay to left; chimney breast on right hand gable end.
Interior
Internally there are 6-panel doors, those on the ground floor have octagonal panels; these rooms were formerly offices and laboratories for the adjacent Abbey Paper Mills.
Reason for designation
Included as the only surviving, intact, late-Georgian building directly related to the management of the historically important former Greenfield Valley mills.
Nearby in the register
- BetneaDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Valley LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- The SurgeryHealth and Welfareunder 1 mi
- Holy Trinity ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.