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
85415
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
05/10/2005
Date of Amendment
05/10/2005
Name of Property
Well House Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Broughton and Bretton
Town
Locality
Bretton
Easting
336256
Northing
364689
Street Side
N
Location
Located at the end of a short track off the A5104, on low-lying ground adjacent to Hawarden Airport. To the rear (W), is a group of contemporary farm buildings with boarded-up openings.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Mid C19 farmhouse, shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey of 1869; the rear wing appears to have been altered.
Exterior
Simple Tudor-gothic style house. Symmetrical 3-window house of one-and-a-half storeys, constructed of brick with pecked sandstone dressings, under an old slate roof with brick end stacks. Dressings include stone quoins, plinth, chamfered window and door surrounds, moulded kneelers and raised copings. Central stone doorcase containing a boarded door under a 2-pane overlight, the panes divided by a mullion. Stone cross-windows containing small sashes with horizontal glazing bars, flanking each mullion. Square hoodmoulds to lower storey openings. The upper storey windows are under gabled half-dormers with similar stone detail including kneelers and raised copings.
The S gable end has a similar cross-window offset to L of upper storey. Metal French doors beneath, probably early C20, and 2 single lights to R with sandstone lintels. N gable end has 2 small lights towards L, and a lean-to to R containing 2 small lights. Rear of house has large metal-framed window to L, probably early C20; upper storey has gabled half-dormer with cross-window, as front, and a 2-light window to its R. Further R, a 2-storey rear wing adjoins the main range; it appears to have been extended, the ridge stack probably an end stack originally. The rear wing is converted to 2 flats, the front facing S. The windows are asymmetrical, either 2- or 3-light small-pane wooden casements or early C20 metal windows, all under sandstone lintels. Part-glazed double doors to far R leading to one flat, the 2nd flat reached by steps to the W gable end. Rear has a small 2-window gabled wing, with added flat-roofed porch in angle with main range, and large lean-to including flat-roofed dormer to R.
Interior
Interior not seen (8/7/05).
Reason for designation
Listed as an unusually well-detailed mid C19 farmhouse, retaining good architectural character.
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