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
25238
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/05/2001
Date of Amendment
25/05/2001
Name of Property
The Vicarage
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Whitford
Town
Holywell
Locality
Gorsedd
Easting
315194
Northing
376544
Street Side
Location
Located to the SW of the church. The driveway runs W off the road from Gorsedd to Pantasaph. The building is divided, with the vicarage to the L and accessed by the main entrance.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
The vicarage was built in 1852-3 to the design of T H Wyatt, along with the Church of St Paul and the school. These buildings were funded by public subscription following the Pantasaph controvery in which the Church of St David became Roman Catholic.
Exterior
Interior
The interior has a central stair hall, which has a dog-leg stair with plain balusters and turned newels. Simple panelled doors.
Reason for designation
Listed as a fine Victorian vicarage in domestic Gothic style, with few alterations, and for group value with Church of St Paul and the church hall.
Group Description
The Vicarage & Holly House, Whitford Commuinity.
Tudor Gothic style 2-storey house of coursed rubble with freestone dressings, slate roof behind coped gables with moulded kneelers, and stone stacks. The asymmetrical 4-bay front is characterised by its 3 varied gables to the R, and half-hipped bay to the L. The entrance is offset L of centre, and has a pointed head with hoodmould and a panelled and ribbed door. Above it is a 2-light window under a gablet, at the apex of which is a dated tablet. On the L side of the entrance is a canted bay window with relieving arch in the lower storey. Set back R of the entrance are 2 asymmetrical gables, with 3-light transomed windows in the lower storey, and similar windows above, all under relieving arches.
The L-hand return is double-gabled and has a cross window in the lower storey to the R and a 3-light window above it. The L-hand gable is set back and has 2 cross windows in the lower storey and a 3-light window above. The rear elevation has a porch with doorway on its R side under a boarded canopy. Above the porch is a cross window in the upper storey, and on the L side is a paired sash window under a gablet in the upper storey and an enlarged window in the lower storey. Further L the service wing continues to form an L-plan facing the yard, and has a blocked doorway and 2 windows, with 2 paired sashes in the upper storey.
In the R-hand return of the house an external stack L of centre provides the main focus. To the L of the stack are 2 replaced windows in the lower storey and a sash window above. On the R side of the stack are replaced windows flanking an inserted window in the lower storey, with 2 sash windows above. A projection is at the rear.
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