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.
Summary Description
Reference Number
24687
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/01/2001
Date of Amendment
31/01/2001
Name of Property
Plas-newydd
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Ysceifiog
Town
Holywell
Locality
Babell
Easting
315160
Northing
374450
Street Side
Location
Approximately 3km N of Ysceifiog, reached by farm road W of a minor road between Babell and Gorsedd. The house faces N behind a garden with iron railings.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Dated 1641 on the hall fireplace lintel, it was originally a 2-unit house of hall and parlour, and with a massive gable-end hall stack. In the late C19 the house was remodelled to suit contemporary taste by inserting larger sash windows, while the hall was narrowed to create an entrance hall. A cart house was also added in the second half of the C19, which has subsequently been partly adapted as an additional ground-floor room in the house.
Exterior
A 3-bay farmhouse of one storey and attic, of pebble-dashed walls and steep slate roof with 2 skylights and tall end stacks. Windows are late C19 4-pane sashes. In the upper storey they are within gabled half dormers with cusped barge boards and finials. The central doorway retains a panelled door inside a lately added lean-to porch. Against the L gable end is a 2-bay cart house with higher eaves line. It has wide segmental arches, of which the L-hand is open and the R-hand infilled and with an added window, and loft doors above. A rubble-stone lean-to projects to the L end of the cart house. The R gable end of the house is 2-window with 4-pane sashes, except for a small-pane horned sash window upper R. A boarded-up cellar opening is to the R side.
The rear has an enlarged window to the lower L, to the R of which is an added single-storey flat-roofed projection. In the upper storey are windows R and L, of which the L-hand retains a small-pane sash while the R-hand is replaced. Set at a lower level to the centre is a small-pane horned sash window lighting the stair. The rear of the cart house has a loft door to the R side. Behind the cart house the main house has an inserted upper-storey 2-light casement L of the stack.
Interior
The original hall, on the L side of the front, retains a single spine beam that continues into the present stair hall with closed string stair, and a fireplace with a dated timber lintel.
Reason for designation
Listed for architectural interest as a C17 farmhouse remodelled to suit late C19 taste, retaining late C19 character and C17 interior detail.
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