Holly House is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 May 2001. House.
Holly House
- WRENN ID
- proud-barrel-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Flintshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 May 2001
- Type
- House
- Address
- Holly House, Gorsedd, Holywell, Whitford
- OS grid reference
- SJ 151 765
- Coordinates
- 53.27915, -3.27341
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Holly House is a 2-storey house in the Tudor Gothic style, constructed from coursed rubble with freestone dressings and a slate roof featuring coped gables and moulded kneelers. The house has an asymmetrical 4-bay front, distinguished by three varied gables on the right and a half-hipped bay on the left. The entrance is located slightly left of centre and features a pointed head with a hoodmould and a panelled and ribbed door. Above the entrance is a 2-light window beneath a gablet, which has a dated tablet at its apex. To the left of the entrance, there is a canted bay window with a relieving arch on the lower storey. Set back to the right of the entrance are two asymmetrical gables, each with 3-light transomed windows in the lower storey and similar windows above, all under relieving arches.
The left-hand return of the house has double gables and features a cross window in the lower storey to the right, with a 3-light window above it. The left gable is set back and has two cross windows in the lower storey and a 3-light window above. The rear elevation includes a porch with a doorway on its right side, which is sheltered by a boarded canopy. Above the porch is a cross window in the upper storey, and to the left is a paired sash window under a gablet in the upper storey, along with an enlarged window in the lower storey. Further to the left, the service wing extends to form an L-plan facing the yard, featuring a blocked doorway and two windows, with two paired sashes in the upper storey.
On the right-hand return of the house, an external stack is positioned slightly left of centre, serving as a focal point. To the left of the stack are two replaced windows in the lower storey and a sash window above. On the right side of the stack, there are replaced windows flanking an inserted window in the lower storey, with two sash windows above. A projection is located at the rear. Access to the interior was not available at the time of inspection.
Local climate
Holly House 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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