Abbey House is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 August 1991. Church.

Abbey House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Flintshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 August 1991
Type
Church
Address
Abbey House, Greenfield, Holywell
OS grid reference
SJ 194 775
Coordinates
53.28883, -3.20928
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Abbey House is a Reformed Church built in the early 19th century, as indicated on an 1833 map. The building is two stories tall and features a three-window front made of pebbledash, with cemented quoins, a plinth, and window surrounds. It has a hipped asbestos slate roof topped with a pebbledash chimney stack. The windows are 12-pane sashes with lugged architraves. The entrance has a broad surround, although the porch has been removed. It features a round arched entrance flanked by fluted pilasters, with a door that has six octagonal panels and a traceried fanlight above. On the left side, there are two windows above one window, all with 12-pane sashes, along with an inserted modern window. There is an added bay on the left and a chimney breast on the right gable end.

Inside, the building has six-panel doors, with the ground floor doors featuring octagonal panels. These rooms were previously used as offices and laboratories for the nearby Abbey Paper Mills. The land drops away steeply to the left down to the Holywell Stream.

Local climate

Abbey House receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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