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
504
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/11/1990
Date of Amendment
19/08/1991
Name of Property
Greenfield House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Holywell
Town
Locality
Greenfield
Easting
319311
Northing
377322
Street Side
Location
Set back from the road on corner of the lane to Abbey Farm. Iron-railed boundary wall with chamfered stone gate piers to main entrance.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
C18 origins; late-Georgian remodelling (shown on 1833 map) followed by late-Victorian ca 1900 alterations to the front and interior
Exterior
2-storeys. 3-window scribed rendered front with plinth and quoins; modern concrete tile roof with rendered chimney stack to left end and two at rear. Horned sash windows with sills and cambered voussoir arch heads; tripartite to left. Central late Victorian gabled porch with deep cornice and plinth and high transom to glazing with traceried top-lights; narrow hall windows to either side. Garage stepped down to left. Scribed render rear has 9-pane sashes to 1st floor and a splayed bay to ground floor. Projecting chimney breast beside Central 4-panel back door with timber porch; 2-storey extension beyond with monopitch roof and small-pane sash windows. The left hand (NE) side of the main building has small-pane sashes with cambered voussoir heads including a horizontally slidding sash. Whitewashed, lofted stable and privy attached at rear corner; further rubble outbuilding at right angles with multipane horizontally sliding sash.
Interior
The main entrance is onto a large square hall with enrichment of ca1900; tiled floor, complete panelled effect up to bracketed cornice at picture rail level and ribbed plaster ceiling of a standard lobed pattern. The cornice is earlier C19 with rosettes at corners. Late-Georgian staircase retained with S-shaped tread ends; segmental arch leads to stepped down rear hallway - thick wall between this and the main hall may have been the outside wall of the original building. 6-panel doors with architraves and panelled shutters to main rooms. Regency style reeded architrave to dining room at left with tall sideboard recess; semicircular arched polished slate chimneypiece. More elaborate chimneypiece to drawing room at right and ornate foliated iron ceiling rose. One early 8-panel, fielded, door on 1st floor.
Reason for designation
Listed for its well-preserved interior and as one of the last remaining old houses in the Greenfield Valley to retain much of its architectural character.
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