Llettau at Pentrehobyn is a Grade I listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 October 1952. Domestic building.

Llettau at Pentrehobyn

WRENN ID
sheer-hearth-khaki
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Flintshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
22 October 1952
Type
Domestic building
Address
Llettau at Pentrehobyn, Leeswood and Pontblyddyn
OS grid reference
SJ 250 624
Coordinates
53.15367, -3.12297
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Llettau at Pentrehobyn is a low single-storey building made of rubble stone, topped with a massive stone slab roof. It is divided into eight small cells, with an attached two-storey block at the east end, which is part ashlar and is believed to have been used by the warden or overseer. Each cell features a boarded door beneath a canted dressed stone lintel and a small round-headed ventilation opening beside it. There is a modern inscribed plaque in the center. The two eastern cells have circular vents and slightly wider doorways.

The two-storey warden's house is constructed from finer, partly ashlar masonry and includes gable parapets, simple rounded kneelers, and a ball finial at the east gable apex. The opposite gable has a stone chimney stack with weathercoursing. There is a plinth on the east and north sides, and the north side features outside stone steps leading to the upper floor. The main entrance is on the south side, showcasing a canted Tudor-arched door beneath a two-light window with rounded heads. The gable end has a rectangular attic window and a camber-headed ground-floor window that has been extended through the plinth to create a tall, narrow doorway.

To the west, there is a rubble linking wall with pointed coping and a small boarded door set in a chamfered opening with large jambs. The individual cells vary slightly in size but all have cobbled floors and simple barrel-vaulted stone roofs, measuring approximately 1.8 meters high and 2 meters wide. The interior of the warden's house has been renovated.

Local climate

Llettau at Pentrehobyn receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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