Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Vicarage
Shotton, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 18 May 2005
- Locality
- Shotton
- Community
- Shotton
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.20932, -3.03426
- Cadw reference
- 84402
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
Located immediately E of the Church and set back from the main road in gardens.
History
Neo-classical vicarage built in 1907. Architect not known, but an exceptionally sophisticated design.
Exterior
Symmetrical 2 storey 5-window vicarage with central 3-window pedimented bay. Roughcast, but articulated by brick pilaster strips, brick quoin strips and plinth; hipped red-tiled roof with wide moulded eaves and 4 tall brick stacks, symmetrically-arranged with 2 to front and 2 to rear roof pitches. Large moulded triangular pediment, the cornice formed by the eaves, and articulated by pilaster strips. Central entrance with elliptical arch; inset doorcase with fluted pilasters and bosses to capitals, containing a half-lit panelled door with diamond glazing; fan-light with radial glazing bars. The windows are horned sashes with margin glazing, within fluted frames with flat heads and stone sills. Twelve-pane sashes to ground floor and 3-over-6-pane sashes to 1st floor, but the windows immediately R of entrance have a central mullion, and those to far R are blind. The W end of the house is 3-window, with pilaster strips dividing bays. The rear elevation is also 3-window but with full-height canted bays divided by pilaster strips; similar sashes with margin glazing,16-pane to lower storey, 4-over-8-pane above, with narrow lights to canted angles. Adjoining E end is a single-storey range with 2 x 3-over-6-pane sashes to front. Upper storey of E side of main range partly visible, including similar sash window and pilaster strips.
Interior
Interior not seen.
Reason for designation
Listed as an exceptionally fine Edwardian vicarage, elegantly designed and detailed.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St EthelwoldReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Churchyard boundary wall, Church of St EthelwoldNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- The Clwyd PHCommercialunder 1 mi
- Shotton Infants SchoolNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.