Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
24666
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/01/2001
Date of Amendment
31/01/2001
Name of Property
Pen-ffynnon-y-cyff
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Ysceifiog
Town
Holywell
Locality
Lixwm
Easting
316905
Northing
370824
Street Side
Location
An isolated house at the S end of the village, and reached by private track on the W side of the B5121.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built as workmen's cottages in the third quarter of the C19 and first shown on the 1871 Ordnance Survey. Subsequently the row was converted to a single dwelling on the R-hand side, with workshops or sheds on the L-hand side.
Exterior
A single-storey house set across the sloping hillside, comprising a single long range with pebble-dashed walls, slate roof, and 4 ridge stacks of which render has part fallen away revealing brick beneath. Openings are all set beneath the eaves. The house is 4-window with a boarded door L of centre between 2 horizontal sliding sash windows. The 2 windows on the R side are large-pane vertical sliding sashes. Further L are 4 boarded doors of which 2 are probably converted from windows. The R gable end has a sash window on the R side under a segmental head. A short gabled rear wing on the R side of the house has a brick end stack.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed as representing a distinctive single-storeyed regional house type of the C19, retaining vernacular character.
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