Old Gyrn Arms is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 2001. House, lodge.

Old Gyrn Arms

WRENN ID
fallow-barrel-sepia
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Flintshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 April 2001
Type
House, lodge
Address
Old Gyrn Arms, Llanasa, Holywell
OS grid reference
SJ 106 813
Coordinates
53.32186, -3.34209
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Old Gyrn Arms is a 20-window rubble-stone house with a slate roof and four brick stacks, dating from the 17th century. The front, facing north, features four-pane sash windows set within stone lintels and stone sills. The window on the right-hand side is set apart, while the remaining windows are grouped towards the centre and left. The two upper right-hand windows belong to West Lodge. The left-hand doorway has a Tudor-arched surround with stopped-chamfer details and is inscribed '1675 GE:PK'. It is protected by a studded door dating from the early 19th century. A second doorway, with a boarded door, is set well back from the right-hand end.

The left-hand gable end has a later inserted doorway with an integral window in the lower storey, and an enlarged window in the upper storey. Behind the main house is an L-shaped, two-storey rear wing constructed of rubble stone with a slate roof. This wing connects to the left-hand gable end of the main house, with double-boarded doors leading to a cart house in the lower storey and a horizontal-sliding sash window above. The return wall has a stone stack rising from the eaves on the right, as well as a boarded stable door on the left with a narrow ventilation strip to the right, and a renewed sash window beneath a segmental head in the upper central position. A lean-to is set back against the left-hand gable end.

At the rear, the main house has a large sash window within a yellow brick surround and beneath a gablet, which illuminates the stair. Further to the left is a smaller sash window in a similar yellow brick surround. The rear wing has two four-pane sashes in the upper storey of its side wall, and its rear wall abuts and is continuous with the wall that flanks the entrance to the drive leading to Gyrn Castle.

West Lodge, facing south, is continuous with the upper storey of the Old Gyrn Arms. It is an L-shaped, single-storey cottage constructed of rubble stone with a slate roof and has openings with yellow brick dressings, stone lintels, and four-pane sashes. An inserted doorway is located in the angle of the two wings. The original doorway, on the left-hand side beneath a gablet, has been converted into a window. The front wing has two windows facing the entrance, a single window behind, and the gable end has an external stone stack cut down below the eaves.

The main doorway opens into an entrance hall with a 19th-century staircase to the rear. The room on the left side retains a single cross beam.

Local climate

Old Gyrn Arms sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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