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NO.8 Well Street, Clwyd

A Grade II Listed Building in Holywell, Flintshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.2746 / 53°16'28"N

Longitude: -3.2229 / 3°13'22"W

OS Eastings: 318547

OS Northings: 375985

OS Grid: SJ185759

Mapcode National: GBR 5ZYK.1W

Mapcode Global: WH76K.GYHJ

Plus Code: 9C5R7QFG+RR

Entry Name: NO.8 Well Street, Clwyd

Listing Date: 13 January 1987

Last Amended: 19 August 1991

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 493

Building Class: Commercial

ID on this website: 300000493

Location: Close to the NW end of High Street and with gable end facing modern road.

County: Flintshire

Town: Holywell

Community: Holywell (Treffynnon)

Community: Holywell

Built-Up Area: Holywell

Traditional County: Flintshire

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History

Probably ca 1600 with C19 remodelling; modern restoration.

Exterior

2-storey and attic, 2-window stucco front with quoins; slate roof (raised in C19 work) and red brick chimney stack to left end. Gabled dormers, with ornamented bargeboards, rising through eaves. Horned sash windows with architraves, small-pane to upper sashes; broad shopfront, offset to left. Rubble gable end (and rear wall), eaves raised in red brick, now rendered; 2-lightly chamfered stone mullioned windows. Brick lean-to extensions at rear.

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Interior

Shop interior retains two stop-chamfered cross beams (with ironwork supports), rubble walled cellar with front offset opening (original street doorway?) and remains of rear spiral staircase. Chimney breast within gable wall; arched staicase opening to 1st floor and dressed stone chimneypiece.
3-bay roof with reused trusses, collars, tie-beams and trenched purlins.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as one of the few remaining town centre houses to retain substantial sub-medieval detail

Group value with No 1

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