Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Plasnewydd Cottage and Farmhouse
Leeswood and Pontblyddyn, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 4 December 1981
- Locality
- Hartsheath
- Community
- Leeswood and Pontblyddyn
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.13882, -3.06578
- Cadw reference
- 541
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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
Situated at the end of a track leading from the A5104, approx. 0.5km to the N of Hartsheath Hall.
History
Early C18 farmhouse, now subdivided into 2 dwellings. The present structure incorporates an earlier, probably C17, house.
Exterior
2 storey, 5 bay house constructed of brick and stone, rendered and painted white. Slate roof with later C19 red brick stacks. Uniform design but slightly irregular in form. Main door offset to left with extra-ordinarily large 12-pane overlight. To either side 2x24-pane sashes, 5 similar windows above, 1 of which has had the glazing bars removed on the upper sash. To rear is attached a 1 storey with attic range. Brick and stone rubble construction, now painted white, slate roof. To right the remains of an earlier, possibly C17 stone mullioned window, only 1 light visible. Various C20 alterations.
Interior
Main farmhouse, contains staircase of irregular flights. Although balusters date to early C18 the form and flights of staircase probably incorporate the lower flights of an earlier C17 staircase. Various ceiling beams.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of an early C18 farmhouse with evidence of an earlier core; and for group value with the buildings on the Hartsheath Estate.
Nearby in the register
- Park Cottage to N of Coach-house and Stables at HartsheathDomesticunder 1 mi
- Coach-house and Stables to NE of HartsheathDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ice Tunnels immediately to NE of HartsheathDomesticunder 1 mi
- Retaining Walls flanking sunken Servants' Pathway at HartsheathDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.