Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Groed Onen Windmill
Holywell, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pen-y-Maes, Holywell, Flintshire, designated on 26 July 1951.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 26 July 1951
- Locality
- Pen-y-Maes
- Community
- Holywell
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.27322, -3.21533
- Cadw reference
- 515
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
Set back from the bend in the road on the edge of the town centre.
Exterior
Basingwerk Abbey is believed to have erected a windmill on this site. The present structure is however probably late C18 or ca 1800. The windmill has been restored over the last 10 years.
Conical tower windmill, stone built with plinth; recently whitewashed (Autumn 1990). Replaced weatherboarded boat-shaped cap with timber balcony except on sail side. 4-storeys with camber-arched headed openings and modern small-pane, top-hung windows arranged in regular tiers. 2-modern doors to N, the upper one opens onto a 1st floor balcony carried on raking timber struts springing from plinth; iron cleats.
Reason for designation
Listed as a prominent local landmark and as a rare surviving Welsh example of a full height windmill.
Nearby in the register
- Masonic HallInstitutionalunder 1 mi
- Territorial Army Drill HallDefenceunder 1 mi
- Old Bank HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Maes-Y-DreDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.