Northop Hall Farm (The Gatehouse Record)

Northop Hall Farm

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as;
Llyseurgain

In the community of Northop Hall.
In the historic county of Flintshire.
Modern authority of Flintshire.
Preserved county of Clwyd.

OS Map Grid Reference: SJ26806843
Latitude 53.20791° Longitude -3.09740°

Northop Hall Farm has been described as a certain Fortified Manor House.

There are major building remains.

This is a Grade 2* listed building protected by law*.

Description

Former gentry house, now farmhouse. Said to have been built in mid C15 by Dafydd ab Ithel Fychan, and mentioned by the poet Gutun Owain. From C15 the seat of the Evans family. The house was seriously damaged in a fire in the autumn of 1995; a C19 wing was completely gutted, and C15 wing damaged including roof structure. House without roof covering and with many openings boarded over at time of inspection.
In early wing trusses of original 6-bay wind- and arch-braced roof visible; stone barrel vaulting to first floor and cellar which has well and winding stone stair in thickness of wall. Traces of further stone stair to former garderobe block. Some openings retain Tudor arches; piscina. Traces of wall paintings on partion wall at dais end of hall.
House in yellow stone and red brick, roof covering lost in fire of 1995, brick chimneys. Two blocks, older block in stone aligned N-S, a first floor hall house; at right angles later block in stone and brick whose overall character is late Victorian and later, but has earlier origins. Entrance doorway towards S end of E side of older block; window at first floor level, and to L of door (blocked first floor window at angle with later block); at basement level, Tudor-arched stone doorway. South gable end has no openings, but blocked slit windows to cellar and stair. West elevation has 2 windows to first floor (blocked openings between), and lower small first floor window to L; on ground floor, blocked window and doorway, and to L, blocked pedimented 3-light mullioned and transomed window. N gable end has window to each floor, formerly pedimented mullioned windows, now blocked with large camber-headed window to first floor, and broad window under stone lintel to ground floor. Crosswing N wall in stone with 2 large windows (boarded over) to first floor, and window and doorway (boarded over) to ground floor. Left gable end in brick and stone, openings boarded over. (Listed Building Report)

Comments

Strong house; a very solidly-built oblong two-storey building, with basement at one end. Apparently not crenellated. Probably C15 originally although much altered.

Sources of information, references and further reading

The CADW listed database record number is/are 323.
The National Monument Record (Coflein) number(s) for this site is/are 36055.
The County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) for this site is/are 100052.

Books
- Emery, Anthony, 2000, Greater Medieval Houses Vol. 2 (Cambridge) p. 685
  Salter, Mike, 1997, The Castles of North Wales (Malvern) p. 76
  Hubbard, E., 1986, The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd (Yale University Press) p. 410
  King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 1 p. 156
  Smith, P., 1975, Houses of the Welsh Countryside (HMSO) p. 138
  Bevan-Evans, M. and Jones, W.H., 1964, Farmhouses and Cottages ... of Flintshire (Hawarden) p. 6, 8-9
Periodical Articles
- Hogg, A.H.A. and King, D.J.C., 1967, 'Masonry castles in Wales and the Marches: a list' Archaeologia Cambrensis Vol. 116 p. 71-132
  Smith, T. and Hayes, P., 1965-6, ‘Llyseurgain and the Tower’ Publications of the Flintshire Historical Society Vol. 22 p. 1-8 online copy

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