Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cartshed and Stable Range at Hendre Farm
Bodfari, Denbighshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 12 February 1991
- Locality
- Hendre
- Community
- Bodfari
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.21955, -3.37553
- Cadw reference
- 1518
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
In farmyard of Hendre, to north side of former farmhouse; reached via byroad from A541 immediately opposite Pontruffydd lodge.
History
Early- or mid-C19 lofted cartshed and stables, shown on the 1871 map.
Exterior
Lofted cartshed with attached single-storey stable to south-east gable end. Slate roofs, red brick front wall with flush limestone dressings; limestone rubble elsewhere with traces of render. Three elliptical-arched cart openings to the yard with banded piers; loft openings above with segmental arches and wooden frames. The north-west gable has outside brick stairs with stone treads, leading to a boarded door; boundary wall abuts outer angle.
Stables set-back at south-east end with low front eaves, varied openings with boarded doors and patterned vents.
Rear (facing lane) has four boarded openings to low section only.
Interior
Interior said to have a pair of king-post roof trusses, brick supports. Massive cross-beams to ground floor.
Reason for designation
A well-preserved cartshed range, part of a farmstead group at Hendre.
Nearby in the register
- Barn Range with Walled Yard at Hendre farmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Hendre (Former Farmhouse)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Pont RuffyddTransportunder 1 mi
- Pont Ruffydd (partly in Bodfari Community)Transportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.