What is recorded here

Old Orphanage, Hawarden Castle and Broadlane House occupy one Flintshire address, a country house recorded from the Post Medieval period. The names collide like a child running through three different rooms, suggesting a building that absorbed other identities instead of keeping one. Perhaps it served as an orphanage, a castle and a house at different times, or perhaps people simply refused to call it one thing. The national record preserves the contradiction rather than solving it.

The National Monuments Record of Wales records Old Orphanage;Hawarden Castle;Broadlane House as Country House from the Post Medieval period. The saved point comes from the official national record. Inclusion does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Hawarden Castle, originally built in the 13th century and significantly expanded in the 16th and 19th centuries, was held by the Earls of Powis and later the Marquesses of Londonderry. It is important as a historic seat of a prominent noble family and for its architectural evolution reflecting Welsh and Anglo-Irish heritage.

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