Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn at Nequis Hall Estate
Nercwys, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 12 December 1994
- Locality
- Nercwys
- Community
- Nercwys
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.13213, -3.13552
- Cadw reference
- 15214
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
Located at the E side of the service court.
Exterior
A exceptionally large rubble-built hay barn. C17, raised late C18. Shallow-pitched slate roof with coped gables and shaped kneelers. 3 tiers of ventilation slits with a further tier added at the time
of raising. At the same time the central entrance has been enlarged and given a wide, depressed-arched head. Flanking this, and above, 2 oculi with plain ashlar voussoirs. Brick cambered-headed entrance with boarded stable door to N gable with loading bay above.
Interior
7 bays with the original trusses still in situ, despite the raising. Queen post trusses with chamfered, trenched purlins.
Reason for designation
A fine and unusually large early barn with with good, yet restrained later work
Nearby in the register
- Stable/Office Range at Nerquis Hall EstateDomesticunder 1 mi
- Piggeries at Nerquis HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Coach-House and Cart-House at Nerquis HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Screen Walls at Nerquis Hall EstateDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.