Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Date of Designation
16/11/1994
Date of Amendment
16/11/1994
Name of Property
Attached Stable Range to Brick-House
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Location
Set back from the road behind a raised, hedged garden.
Exterior
A late C17 2-storey farmhouse of brick and stone with C19 alterations. Medium-pitched slate roofs with plain eaves. C19 end chimneys. Loddy-entry plan with central brick stack. Asymmetrical facade, now pebble-dashed and with C19 fenestration. Off-set entrance with plain stucco surround, slightly projecting. 4-panelled door, the upper panels glazed. 9-pane recessed sash windows to L and R. 6-pane windows to first floor with off-set 4-pane central one and all with narrow stone cills. Plain string-course.
Stepped down and adjoining to the R, a brick (painted) early C19 stable range. Slate roof of steeper pitch. Stable door with simple cambered-headed windows to the left and right. 2 further 6-pane sashes, irregularly-placedon the first floor. Modern wooden garage door to the R. Catslide outshuts to the rear of the farmhouse and other C20 additions to rear of both ranges. Stable-block with external first-floor access to the rear.
Interior
Beamed ceiling in ground floor room to the L (former hall) with main beam chamfered and plain-stopped. Inglenook bressumer present, though obscured by wall paper. In corresponding first-floor room a similar fireplace with a carved, arcaded bressumer with central date 1673. Reeded ceilings are said to be in place beneath the plaster. Cellar with worn-stepped access, now blocked.
Reason for designation
An interesting C17 farmhouse, largely unaltered this century.
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