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Latitude: 53.2938 / 53°17'37"N
Longitude: -3.2458 / 3°14'44"W
OS Eastings: 317058
OS Northings: 378149
OS Grid: SJ170781
Mapcode National: GBR 5ZSB.2Z
Mapcode Global: WH76K.3GNR
Plus Code: 9C5R7QV3+GM
Entry Name: Plassau
Listing Date: 6 March 1989
Last Amended: 28 March 2002
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 579
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300000579
Location: At the end of a farm track 1.4km S of Mostyn church, and built across a sloping site overlooking Llanerch-y-mor.
County: Flintshire
Community: Mostyn
Community: Mostyn
Locality: Mertyn Downing
Traditional County: Flintshire
Tagged with: Cottage
A late C17 2-unit cottage extended in the C18 by the addition of a second cottage and with late C20 rear additions.
A single-storey cottage of rubble stone and thatch roof. It has 2 doorways, each of which is flanked by replaced windows. The L-hand doorway and windows constitute the original cottage. The R-hand doorway is within a gabled porch. Behind is a single-storey link to a parallel 2-storey rear wing.
Inside the earlier cottage a simple cruck truss is retained, rising from approximately 0.6m above the ground to the side. An undulating tie beam is ceiled at collar level. The fireplace has a timber lintel.
Listed as a rare-surviving pair of single-storey cottages, a type once common in the district, retaining traditional building materials and techniques.
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