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Bryn Glas Smithy

A Grade II Listed Building in Halkyn, Flintshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.2125 / 53°12'45"N

Longitude: -3.1631 / 3°9'47"W

OS Eastings: 322425

OS Northings: 369014

OS Grid: SJ224690

Mapcode National: GBR 6Z.1L4L

Mapcode Global: WH76Z.DJ02

Plus Code: 9C5R6R7P+2Q

Entry Name: Bryn Glas Smithy

Listing Date: 31 January 2002

Last Amended: 31 January 2002

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 26191

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300026191

Location: Approximately 1km ENE of Rhosesmor church on the S side of a junction of minor roads between Rhosesmor and Northop.

County: Flintshire

Town: Holywell

Community: Halkyn (Helygain)

Community: Halkyn

Locality: Rhosesmor

Traditional County: Flintshire

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History

Bryn Glas was a farmstead purchased by the Bankes family of Soughton Hall in 1824 which included a cottage on the site of the smithy, which is shown on the 1839 Tithe map. The cottage was subsequently rebuilt as an estate smithy and is shown in its present form on the 1870 Ordnance Survey. Windows were replaced by large-pane sashes in the late C19 or early C20.

Exterior

A one-and-a-half storey 2-window house of pebble-dashed walls, slate roof with overhanging eaves, and brick stack to the L. To the R hand is a projecting gabled bay. Windows are late C19 large-pane margin-lit sashes under segmental heads, in a gabled half dormer upper L. The central doorway is beneath a bracketed lean-to canopy, and has a boarded door. The R side wall has a sash window similar to the front in the lower storey and a replaced window further R. At the rear, the gabled bay projects on the L-hand side, while the R-hand has a gabled dormer. Both have sash windows, under a segmental head in the gabled bay. Below the dormer is an added single-storey rear wing.

On the L (E) side of the house is a single-storey former smithy of limewashed rubble stone with larger quoins, and slate roof. It has a segmental-headed boarded door to the R, with shuttered window immediately L, then full-height boarded double doors. A lower gabled projection at the L end of the smithy has a boarded door in its rear wall, while the smithy has a rear outshut with similar boarded door in its end wall.

Interior

Not inspected.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a well-preserved C19 estate cottage and smithy and for group value with other listed Soughton Estate buildings in Northop community.

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  • II Caerfallwch
    Approximately 0.6km E of Rhosesmor church and reached by farm road S of a minor road between Rhosesmor and Northop.
  • II Plas-yn-rhos
    Approximately 300m N of Rhosesmor church, set back and reached by farm road on the E side of the B5123.
  • II Rhosesmor war memorial
    On the E side of the church and on the E side of the B5123 on an island of its junction with a minor road to Caerfallwch Farm.
  • II The Old Vicarage
    In its own grounds on the E side of the B5123 approximately 0.6km N of Rhosesmor church.
  • II Church of St Paul
    In a walled churchyard in the centre of the village.
  • II* Coed-y-cra Uchaf
    On the NE side of the A55 and reached by minor road from the W side by a bridge across the main road.
  • II Lime Kiln
    E of Foel Farm, approximately 300m NW of the parish church, set back on the N side of a minor road between Rhosesmor and Moel-y-crio.
  • II Ysgol Rhos Helyg
    Set back and in its own grounds on the E side of the B5123 approximately 1km NNW of Rhosesmor village.

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