475

20  

II  

Designated  

26/07/1951  

19/08/1991  

NO.20 PANTON PLACE,,,,,CLWYD,  

20 Panton Place  

Flintshire  

Holywell  

 

 

318613  

375795  

 

Planned terrace leading off the SW side of the High Street; adjoins National Westminster Bank at NE end; Memorial Gardens to SW end. Set in the slope, facing Nos 1 to 13 (SE side)  

Domestic  

 

Built in 1816 for Paul Panton the Younger, Sheriff of Flintshire to provide living and working accommodation for local professional and trades people. The builder may have been John Wynne. Samuel Pepys Cockerell is specifically mentioned in the deeds; this is the son of the architect of the same name and brother of the architect C R Cockerell; he had chambers at Lincoln's Inn, London, as did Paul Panton. These terraces would have additional intrest if their inventive design stemmed, through the association of Panton and S P Cockerell junior, from the offices of one or other of the Cockerell architects; S P Cockerell carried out notable town planning schemes in London. Converted 1968-7-, into homes for the elderly, by Lingard and Associates.  

2-storeys, 8-windows; Flemish bond red brick with slate roof and red brick chimney stacks. Together with the similar SE side this terrace is distinctive for its round arched entrances with voussoirs, alternating between individual doorways in stepped recesses and tall arched recesses spanning paired doorways. This arrangement is unusual in early C19 terraced housing and here the paired doorways probably indicate that the original plan included workshops with seperate access; the left hand doorway in each pair, except that to NE end, has been blocked in conversion. 5-pane fanlights, modern 6-panel doors and sandstone doorsteps. 16-pane sash windows with voussoirs; the voussoirs to many of the ground floor windows are especially tall; blocked cellar openings. Modernised to rear.  

 

Listed as an important surviving example of urban housing of this date. Group value with Nos 1 to 13 opposite.