Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Rhydorddwy Fawr Farmhouse
Rhyl, Denbighshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Rhyl, Denbighshire, designated on 10 November 1994.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 10 November 1994
- Community
- Rhyl
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.32015, -3.44441
- Cadw reference
- 14983
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1883 map "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 95 Rhyl (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1930 · OS Popular Edition 1919-1947 (National Library of Scotland)
- 1963 · Map No. 36 - Local Government Commission for Wales : [Definitive maps showing proposed… (National Library of Scotland)
Cadw's description
Location
Approx. 3km NE of Rhuddlan, on the road that runs between Rhyl and Dyserth.
History
Farmhouse built c1830.
Exterior
Flemish bond brickwork on tooled stone plinth, with hipped slate roof with pronounced overhang. 2 end-wall stacks to either side, with octagonal shafts above dentilled bases. 2 storeys and basement to rear, 3-window range with central entrance, in slightly recessed central bay. Doorway raised up semi-circular stone steps; 6-panelled door with side lights and lozenge glazing to overlight with some coloured glass; plain stone lintel over. Flanking windows are canted bays with wide 12-pane hornless sashes and moulded stone cornices. Upper windows are 12-pane hornless sashes with flat arched stone heads and continuous sill band. Round-arched stair window in W return elevation. 3 xl2-pane sash windows on each floor in rear elevation, and basement storey with wide 24 and 20-pane sash windows. The basement is enclosed in an area with stone walls surmounted by ornate cast-iron spear head railings. To either side of the entrance front, a single storey flat roofed pavilion wing, and stone faced garden walls beyond.
Reason for designation
An excellent example of a substantial farmhouse of the mid C19 which forms an important group with its associated farm buildings, the whole forming a planned farmstead of considerable architectural quality.
Nearby in the register
- Detached outbuilding in the farmyard at Rhydorddwy Fawr FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Farmbuildings at Rhydorrdwy Fawr FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Rhydorddwy Goch FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Rhyd-Wen FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.