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
25133
Building Number
12
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/04/2001
Date of Amendment
30/04/2001
Name of Property
12 Glanyrafon Cottages
Address
12 Glanyrafon Cottages
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Llanasa
Town
Holywell
Locality
Glanyrafon
Easting
311791
Northing
381624
Street Side
N
Location
At the E end of Glanyrafon, and set back from the road behind a walled garden.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built as estate cottages in the early C19 by John Douglas, who purchased Gyrn Castle in 1817, and shown on the 1839 Tithe map.
Exterior
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed, notwithstanding superficial alteration, as an estate cottage retaining early character, and for group value with other listed former estate buildings in Glanyrafon, in the context of which they illustrate a humbler form of estate dwelling.
Group Description
12-14 Glanyrafon Cottages
Originally a row of 3 single-storey cottages of rubble stone with slate roofs and 4 stone ridge stacks. Windows are horizontal-sliding sashes under segmental heads. No 12 has windows L and R of a doorway inside an added porch, and incorporates a window further R in what was originally a separate dwelling (No 13). No 14 has a lintelled doorway with boarded door and windows L and R.
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