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
18/07/2001
Date of Amendment
18/07/2001
Name of Property
Faenol Fach
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Trelawnyd and Gwaenysgor
Location
In its own grounds on the E side of the churchyard.
History
Built as the Vicarage in 1842 (date inside building). A projecting bay was added in the S elevation in the third quarter of the C19 and is shown on the 1871 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A 2-storey 3-bay house in Georgian manner, of rubble stone with bigger quoins, a hipped slate roof with projecting boarded eaves, and brick stacks behind R and L. Openings have flat stone arches, and the windows are 12-pane sashes in the lower storey, 9-pane in the upper storey. Original windows have hornless sashes, while replacements are horned sashes. The entrance elevation, facing the church to the W, has a projecting central storeyed porch with plain pediment. This has a doorway with a moulded stone cornice on fluted stone consoles and a fielded-panel door. Small casements are in the porch side walls. The R-hand bay of the house has blind windows, the L-hand bay has renewed sashes. The 2-bay R side wall has an added single-storey projecting bay lower L, which has a large 4-pane tripartite sash window under a stone lintel. The 2-bay L side wall has a renewed sash window upper L, blind window upper R, and an inserted window lower L. The rear has an added continuous single-storey lean-to under a hipped roof, with replaced window above in the upper storey, to the R of which is a small inserted window.
Interior
The porch leads into an entrance hall, on the L side of which is a straight stair with winders at the base, plain balusters and wreathed hand rail. Windows retain mainly original panelled shutters. Stone steps lead to a cellar, on the plastered wall of which is inscribed 'H Evans 1842'.
Reason for designation
Listed for architectural interest as a mid C19 house retaining original character and detail.
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