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
26216
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/01/2002
Date of Amendment
31/01/2002
Name of Property
2 Halkyn Old Hall
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Halkyn
Town
Holywell
Locality
Halkyn
Easting
320566
Northing
371360
Street Side
Location
In its own grounds approximately 400m NW of the parish church and reached by drive on the S side of the B5123.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
An C18 house built by the Grosvenor Estate and shown on the 1839 Tithe map. A rear wing was added in the late C19 and is first shown on the 1899 Ordnance Survey, by which time the house had been divided into 2 properties. The Grosvenor family owned an extensive estate and mineral rights in the Halkyn area. Halkyn Castle was built for the second Earl Grosvenor in 1824-7 and was used as an occasional residence. The Earl was later made Duke of Westminster.
Exterior
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed as a small Georgian country house retaining original character and detail, and for its contribution to the historic character of Halkyn.
Group Description
Halkyn Old Hall
Georgian 2-storey 5-bay house of rubble stone and hipped slate roof with projecting bracketed eaves, and brick stacks to the centre and ends. Windows are 16-pane hornless sashes with concrete lintels replacing original wooden lintels. The original entrance is in the bay L of centre and has a reed-moulded surround to a panelled door incorporating glazed panels. A rubble-stone wall is attached to the R of the doorway, where the building is divided into 2 properties. A second, inserted doorway is in the R-hand bay, inside an added gabled porch with double doors. Against the R end wall is a lower rubble-stone 2-window wing with replaced small-pane windows, carried above the eaves in the upper storey.
In the L side wall are 2-light windows of c1899 offset to the L side, with small-pane upper lights. Behind is an added rear wing with brick jambs and hipped roof, and 4-light windows similar to the main range end wall.
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