Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Plassau
Mostyn, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 6 March 1989
- Locality
- Mertyn Downing
- Community
- Mostyn
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.29378, -3.24582
- Cadw reference
- 579
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
At the end of a farm track 1.4km S of Mostyn church, and built across a sloping site overlooking Llanerch-y-mor.
History
A late C17 2-unit cottage extended in the C18 by the addition of a second cottage and with late C20 rear additions.
Exterior
A single-storey cottage of rubble stone and thatch roof. It has 2 doorways, each of which is flanked by replaced windows. The L-hand doorway and windows constitute the original cottage. The R-hand doorway is within a gabled porch. Behind is a single-storey link to a parallel 2-storey rear wing.
Interior
Inside the earlier cottage a simple cruck truss is retained, rising from approximately 0.6m above the ground to the side. An undulating tie beam is ceiled at collar level. The fireplace has a timber lintel.
Reason for designation
Listed as a rare-surviving pair of single-storey cottages, a type once common in the district, retaining traditional building materials and techniques.
Nearby in the register
- Mertyn IsafDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stokyn HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stormont CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Mertyn DowningDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.