NPRN23448
Map ReferenceSJ17SE
Grid ReferenceSJ1895074990
Unitary (Local) AuthorityFlintshire
Old CountyFlintshire
CommunityHolywell
Type Of SiteWORKHOUSE
PeriodPost Medieval
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Description
Lluesty Hospital was built between 1838-40 as a workhouse, for the Union of 14 parishes, by John Welch, architect of St Asaph and Surveyor to the Guardians. It was built by Thomas Hughes of Liverpool and the contracter was Samuel Parry. There may have been alterations in 1869 and it was enlarged to the right in 1902. There were also some modern extensions during it's conversion to hospital use. It has the standard workhouse grid plan with separate courtyards for men and women and transverse and spinal ranges with a linking central octagon.

The building has a Classical front with coursed masonry, plinth and slate roofs. The main block is a three-storey, three-bay builing,advanced to the centre with a pediment. There are giant order pilasters, paired to the central bay, rising from the first floor sill band. There are small-pane sash windows including broad tripartite window to the second floor centre and round-headed windows to the first floor, as well as similar (round-headed) windows to the ground floor flanking the porch with a pedimented parapet. There are also two -storey, three-window wings set back, behind which the side elevations of the main block become rubble with similiar small-pane sash windows. At the right end of the building there is a two-storey, four-bay 1902 range with freestone dressings and a hipped roof.

There are also three-storey main courtyard ranges and a four-storey central octagonal block which have sashes without glazing bars. The spinal range continues to the rear of the octagon.

Source:- Cadw listed buildings, NJR 16/07/2008
Resources
DownloadTypeSourceDescriptionapplication/pdfERC - Emergency Recording CollectionArboricultural Report (Final)application/pdfERC - Emergency Recording CollectionLandscape Masterplanapplication/pdfERC - Emergency Recording CollectionList of documents and drawings created as part of the planning consultancy.application/pdfERC - Emergency Recording CollectionLluesty Hosptial; pencil illustration for schemeapplication/pdfERC - Emergency Recording CollectionLandscape Design Strategyapplication/pdfERC - Emergency Recording CollectionWorkhouse Building Ground Floor Plan As Existingapplication/pdfERC - Emergency Recording CollectionLluesty South view over siteapplication/pdfERC - Emergency Recording CollectionSite Plan As Extg 1 to 500application/pdfAAP_056 - Aeon Archaeology ProjectsReport from an Historic Building Record Level 3 for WW2 Air Raid Shelters, Lluesty Hospital, Holywell, carried out by Aeon Archaeology in 2021. Project code A0293.1, report no: 0282.application/pdfERC - Emergency Recording CollectionWorkhouse Building Second Floor and Third Floor Plans As Existingapplication/pdfERC - Emergency Recording CollectionWorkhouse elevations as existing sheet 2 of 3application/pdfERC - Emergency Recording CollectionCastlering Archaeology Report No. 286 - Historic Building Recording for Lluesty Hosptial, April 2008 Photographic Record Plates 1-101application/pdfERC - Emergency Recording CollectionArboricultural Report (appendices)application/pdfERC - Emergency Recording CollectionLluesty Hospital, Holywell, Flintshire Extended Phase 1 Surveyapplication/pdfERC - Emergency Recording CollectionBuilding Elevations As Existingapplication/pdfERC - Emergency Recording CollectionMasterplan As Proposedapplication/pdfERC - Emergency Recording CollectionChurch As Existing - Plans & Elevationsapplication/pdfERC - Emergency Recording CollectionCastlering Archaeology Report No. 286 - Front Coverapplication/pdfERC - Emergency Recording CollectionDwellings 42 & 43 As Existing Plans and Elevationsapplication/pdfERC - Emergency Recording CollectionList of photos for - Appendix 2 PHOTO archive