Bagillt Gaol (Lock Up) is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 June 2000. Gaol.

Bagillt Gaol (Lock Up)

WRENN ID
empty-parapet-rye
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Flintshire
Constituency
Alyn and Deeside MP: Sir Mark Tami (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
15 June 2000
Type
Gaol
OS grid reference
SJ 217 755
Coordinates
53.27073, -3.17517
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Bagillt Gaol, also known as the Lock Up, is a stone-built rectangular structure dating from the 19th century, set into a slope. The building features uncoursed rubble masonry with heavy dressed stone quoins. It has a pair of slit windows on opposing sides and a roof made of rectangular sandstone slabs arranged in four cantilevered courses, now secured with cramped non-ferrous cramps. There is evidence that the roof slabs were once tarred on the exterior.

The doorway on the southwest elevation has a replaced stone lintel and indented stone jambs with a pair of iron hinge bolts. It is fitted with a new studded metal door that has strap hinges, dating from restoration, while the original lock strap bolt remains in place. The door has a stone slab threshold with water channels.

Inside, the building is divided into two connected cells by a brick wall that includes a doorway with a pair of iron hinge bolts and a stone lintel. The floor is stone flagged, and the interior walls have been limewashed during restoration.

Local climate

Bagillt Gaol (Lock Up) 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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