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
24/02/1976
Date of Amendment
08/12/1995
Name of Property
Gadlys Woods Farmhouse
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Location
About 400m SE of road.
Exterior
Farmhouse, C17 and later with earlier origins. Rubble and brick, painted, but origins as timber-framed house. Slate roofs, brick chimney. Entrance elevation faces N. L block has 2 gables (L brick, R stone) L gable has decorative panel above 16-pane sash window; similar window to ground floor with string course between floors; R gable has 16-pane sash at string level and entrance door set back in recessed porch. To R of these block set back with 2 16-pane sash widows to each floor, and blocked square window above outshut with brick chimney. Rear has gable to R, 4-paned sash window to first floor, broad window to ground floor. To L of this set slightly back block with gabled dormer two 4-pane sashes to first floor (small window to end); on ground floor modern window to R, Yorkshire sash to end and small squat window between.
To L end lean-to with 4-pane sash window. At (E) end of building is attached in-line barn (blockwork), timber-framing said to be visible in wall with house.
Well-preserved example of vernacular farmhouse.
Group value with adjacent listed buildings.
References: Information from NMR, Aberystwyth.
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