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
498
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/08/1991
Date of Amendment
19/08/1991
Name of Property
Plas-yn-Morfa
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Holywell
Town
Locality
Greenfield
Easting
319441
Northing
377853
Street Side
Location
Situated between the main coast road and the Chester to Holyhead Railway. Set in its own grounds and reached from the main road along short drive.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Early C19, Picturesque Gothick villa; some modern alterations in conversion to nursing home.
Exterior
2-storey rubble elevations. Slate roofs, gabled to front with 3-parallel hipped ranges to rear; wide eaves and 2-stone chimney stacks either side of centre. Main elevations (SW and SE) have retained pointed arched, Gothick, windows with paler stone voussoirs; some glazing altered.
Symmetrical 3-bay main front; windows altered by insertion of frosted glass fanlight and top opening casements; the windows to either side of the entrance have at one time had plinth level sills. Central semicircular arched entrance with traceried fanlight and glazed side lights; 6-octagonal panels to door and similar panels below side lights.
Timber porch with cusped main arches and lancet arches to balustrade; later steps. 3-window left hand side including 1-window to gable end of front range; traceried bargeboards with finials and pendants. 1st floor has intersecting tracery fanlight over modern top-hung glazing; similar window to ground floor centre. Broad Edwardian bay window to right with plate glass windows and toothed valencing. Smaller splayed bay to left with horizontal glazing bars.
Beyond a rubble wall projects to close front garden. The right hand side has 2-storey splayed bay to gable, similar to small bay on left hand side; panelled band between floors. Later cross range (see masonry break) beyond; Victorian gabled porch with bargeboards; 16-pane sash windows to 1st floor and modern glazing below flanking blocked window.
2-window at rear and rubble and hipped roof outhouse running back towards the stable yard.
Interior
Interior retains panelled doors, reveals and shutters. Some alterations in conversion to nursing home.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special intrest as a small 'country house' in the rural area of Holywell Community Council and for its surviving Gothick architectural charcter.
Group value with the Former Stables and Coach-House and Minffordd Cottage.
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