Gellilyfdy is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 October 1952. House.
Gellilyfdy
- WRENN ID
- tenth-cobalt-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Flintshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Gellilyfdy, Babell, Holywell, Ysceifiog
- OS grid reference
- SJ 145 739
- Coordinates
- 53.25558, -3.28223
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Gellilyfdy is a 2-storey house constructed of rubble stone with larger quoins and a slate roof. The windows have mostly been replaced but are set in earlier openings. The original entrance is now enclosed by a single-storey gabled projection on the right side, which features pebble-dashed walls and an end stack. To the left of this projection is a renewed casement window within an earlier opening, topped by a 19th-century stone segmental head, and above it is a similar casement window beneath a wooden lintel. There is also a 19th-century lower gabled wing set back against the left gable end, which has an end stone stack that has been heightened in brick. This wing features a segmental-headed window in the lower storey and another window below the eaves, both renewed as wooden casements. At the rear, the 19th-century wing has a horizontal sliding sash window in the lower left under a wooden lintel. The rear of the main house is marked by a large external stack with a tall stone shaft, and to the left of this stack is an added single-storey gabled projection. The right gable end of the house has wooden casements on each storey, with the upper storey and gable featuring renewed windows in original dressed stone surrounds.
The original doorway is located within the added projection at the front, with a narrow vent strip to its right. Inside, a timber-framed partition between the hall and outer room is now hidden by wallpaper, though a doorway has been cut through it from the porch, and it retains an original Tudor-headed doorway. Both the hall and outer room have well-preserved joist-beam ceilings with stepped stops. The hall features a stone depressed arch over the fireplace. It is believed that the upper storey was originally open to the roof and is said to retain arched-brace trusses, although these are concealed by an inserted joist-beam ceiling.
Local climate
Gellilyfdy receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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