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
456
Building Number
1
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/07/1951
Date of Amendment
19/08/1991
Name of Property
1
Address
1 Panton Place
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Holywell
Town
Locality
Easting
318639
Northing
375800
Street Side
Location
Planned terrace leading off the SW side of the High Street; Memorial Gardens to SW end. Set in slope, facing Nos 14 to 29 (NW side).
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built in 1816 for Paul Panton the Younger, Sheriff of Flintshire to provide living and working accommodation for local professional and trades people. The builder may have been John Wynne. Samuel Pepys Cockerell is specifically mentioned in the deeds; this is the son of the architect of the same name and brother of the architect C R Cockerell; he had chambers at Lincoln's Inn, London, as did Paul Panton. These terraces would have additional intrest if their inventive design stemmed, through the association of Panton and S P Cockerell junior, from the offices of one or other of the Cockerell arhitects; S P Cockerell carried out notable town planning schemes in London. Converted 1968-70, into homes for the elderly, by Lingard and Associates.
Exterior
2-storeys, 7-windows; Flemish bond red brick with slate roof and red brick chimney stacks. Dated in diaper brickwork towards SW end. Together with the similar NW side this terrace is distinctive for its round arched entrances with voussoirs, alternating between individual doorways in stepped recesses and tall arched recesses spanning paired doorways. This arrangement is unusual in early C19 terraced housing and here the paired doorways probably indicate that the original plan included workshops with seperate access; the right hand doorway in each pair has been blocked in conversion. 5-pane fanlights, mostly renewed 6-panel doors and sandstone doorsteps. 16-pane sash windows with voussoirs; blocked cellar openings. Modernised to rear.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as an important surviving example of urban housing of this date.
Group value with Nos 14 to 29 opposite.
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