Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn at Maes-y-Groes Bella
Cilcain, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 16 October 1995
- Locality
- Bryn-y-Castell
- Community
- Cilcain
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.16054, -3.21551
- Cadw reference
- 13173
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated S of the house beside the road 2.2 km SE of Cilcain. Reached from the by-road between Loggerheads and Cilcain.
History
Barn associated with Maes-y-groes Bella which is mentioned in Edward Lhwyd's List of Tai Cyfrifol or `notable houses' in the parish of Cilcain of 1707. Said to contain a queen post truss dated 1682.
Exterior
Long single storey range with hay-loft, rubble construction with renewed slate roof. To ground floor 4 doors, two central ones with stone voussoirs and C20, right hand bays now used as garage. First floor 3 wooden windows, one with wooden shutters and letting-in door.
Interior
Remodelled on the ground floor with brick, probably on the mid-late C19. C20 floors. Stairs up to hay-loft level with one surviving tie-beam truss with angle struts and an unusual arrangement of close studding between the angle struts.
Reason for designation
Listed for its group value with Maes-y-groes Bella.
Nearby in the register
- Maes-y-Groes BellaDomesticunder 1 mi
- Brithdir MawrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tower Folly in Garden of Towerside (Including perimeter Wall)Gardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Pentre Mill (including Sluice and Cast Iron Flume to rear)Industrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.