25124

 

II  

Designated  

30/04/2001  

30/04/2001  

Old Post Office  

 

Flintshire  

Llanasa  

Holywell  

Llanasa  

310629  

381455  

 

On the NW side of the church, its gable end abutting the churchyard wall  

Domestic  

 

Mullioned windows in the gable end suggest a C17 origin for the house, which is shown on the 1839 Tithe map. It was altered in the final quarter of the C19 and is shown as a post office on the 1899 Ordnance Survey. The Post Office closed c1990.  

A 2-storey 2-window house of rubble stone with bigger quoins, and slate roof with C19 brick stack to the L and C20 brick stack to the R. In the upper storey are 6-pane sash windows beneath wooden lintels and with stone sills. A similar window under a stone lintel is lower R, to the L of which is a boarded door in a doorway enlarged from an earlier doorway of which the R-hand jamb and part of a segmental head survive. Further L is an enlarged window (lighting the former post office) under a wooden lintel and an inserted boarded door at the L end. The R gable end, facing the churchyard, has 2-light mullioned windows in both storeys. A rear wing offset to the R side of the house is set back from the gable end, and facing the churchyard has a 3-light window with iron bars under a concrete lintel. A lean-to is added to the gable end of the wing and has concrete pantiles. On the L side of the house is an added rear outshut.  

Not inspected.  

Listed as a prominently-sited house retaining C19 character but with earlier origins, and for its contribution to the historic character of Llanasa.