Plas-newydd is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 2001. Farmhouse.

Plas-newydd

WRENN ID
second-lantern-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Flintshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 January 2001
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Plas-newydd, Babell, Holywell, Ysceifiog
OS grid reference
SJ 151 744
Coordinates
53.26026, -3.2733
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Plas-newydd is a 3-bay farmhouse dating from the 18th century, featuring one storey and an attic. The walls are pebble-dashed, topped with a steep slate roof that has two skylights and tall end stacks. The windows are late 19th century 4-pane sashes, located in gabled half dormers that have cusped barge boards and finials. The central doorway has a panelled door and is framed by a recently added lean-to porch.

To the left gable end, there is a 2-bay cart house with a higher eaves line, featuring wide segmental arches; the left arch is open while the right arch is infilled with an added window and has loft doors above. A rubble-stone lean-to extends from the left end of the cart house. The right gable end of the farmhouse has two windows with 4-pane sashes, except for a small-pane horned sash window in the upper right. There is also a boarded-up cellar opening on the right side.

At the rear, there is an enlarged window on the lower left, next to a single-storey flat-roofed projection added to the right. In the upper storey, there are windows on both sides; the left retains a small-pane sash while the right has been replaced. A small-pane horned sash window, located lower in the centre, lights the stairwell. The rear of the cart house features a loft door on the right side, and behind it, the main house has an inserted upper-storey 2-light casement window to the left of the stack.

Inside, the original hall on the left side of the front retains a single spine beam that extends into the current stair hall, which has a closed string stair, and a fireplace with a dated timber lintel.

Local climate

Plas-newydd 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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