Kennels, cottage and saw mill at Talacre Abbey (also known as The Kennels) is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 April 1987. House, mill.

Kennels, cottage and saw mill at Talacre Abbey (also known as The Kennels)

WRENN ID
seventh-ember-magpie
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Flintshire
Country
Wales
Date first listed
2 April 1987
Type
House, mill
Source
Cadw listing

Description

A 4-storey house and mill on a steep site. The house is 2 storeys and faces the track to the S. The mill below it is 2-storey and faces N to the lower ground where there is a courtyard with kennels. The N side is polygonal and the cottage is slightly stepped inwards. Of snecked rubble stone with lintelled openings and graded slate roof with central paired stone stack. The front of the house has a doorway and flanking windows, all boarded up, under hood moulds linked by a string course, and set below the level of the track. In the upper storey is a single window to the centre with hood mould. The rear of the dwelling has 2-light casements to each facet in its lower storey and corresponding 2-light casements alternating with blind windows in its upper storey. The mill below it has, in its lower storey, 2 doorways in each side wall and windows in each facet, all boarded up. The upper storey has small windows in its side walls.

The courtyard has a polygonal N side respecting the mill plan and retaining walls flanking the mill and cottage. On each side are 2 former kennels in the facets, of which the NW retains a corrugated iron roof while the others are roofless and the SE is ruined and overgrown. A gateway is in the N facet, and on the SW side are stone steps from the track above.

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