Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Rhyd-Wen 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
- 53.32049, -3.45346
- Cadw reference
- 14986
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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
On the road that runs from Rhyl to Dyserth, close to the boundary of Rhyl Community, approx. 3km NE of Rhuddlan.
Exterior
Built as a farmhouse, or possibly as a pair of dwellings, with an attached cottage which was formerly an outbuilding. Dated over 2 doorways 1635 and 1641, and mostly of that period. Roughly coursed and squared stone with slate roof; brick end wall and axial stacks. Low 2-storeys, a long range which formerly comprised a 3-unit house (or a two-unit and a single unit house), to which was added a lower single bay outbuilding. This outbuilding was subsequently converted into a separate cottage, and the end unit of the farmhouse divided off to form part of the cottage. The house faces S and the present entrance (in an added porch) has a shallow 4-centred arch with the date in raised letters on the lintel, with the initials K over I.H. 20-pane sash window to left of doorway, 12-pane sash to its right, and 3 similar windows above. To the left, a further doorway with initials K over I.H. and the date, 1635 in the lintel, is now a 12-pane sash window. 16-pane sash window beyond it, and a 12-pane sash window above. This end unit appears to have originally formed part of the main house, but has now been separated off. The windows are all in moulded architraves, and in most of them, the remains of stone mullions, cut through when the sashes were inserted, are still visible in sills and lintels. A single unit extension to the right was probably added in the C19 as a single storeyed service room, and was raised in height c1950. The former out-building to the left is a lower building and was probably added to the main range in the C18.
Interior
The house retains some original structural features inside, notably the paired axial beams with geometrical chamfer stops in the E room, and the inglenook fireplace (modified) and axial beam with stepped chamfer stop to W room.
Reason for designation
A good example of a C17 vernacular farmhouse, which has a distinctive long plan, and which retains substantial elements of its original character.
Nearby in the register
- Farmbuildings at Rhydorrdwy Fawr FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Detached outbuilding in the farmyard at Rhydorddwy Fawr FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Rhydorddwy Fawr FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Rhydorddwy Goch FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.