Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hay Barn at Plas Hendre
Nercwys, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Nercwys, Flintshire, designated on 12 December 1994.
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
- 53.14273, -3.15123
- Cadw reference
- 15235
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "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).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 108 Flint (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 108 Flint (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located at the end of a farm lane to the W of Hendre Ucha farmhouse, and raised slightly above it, opposite a further, later, agricultural range.
Exterior
A mid-C17 4-bay hay barn with coped gable parapets and kneelers. Rubble construction with a medium/steep slate roof and battered base to E gable end. Set on the slope of a hill, there are 2 tiers of ventilation slits to the L and 3 to the R, some blocked. Large central entrance with timber lintel bearing carved date 1648. Modern brick infil to R, and a modern boarded stable door. Further entrance to L with plain boarded door. 2 C20 single-storey extensions to L, projecting S, with an adjacent, probably C18 single-storey rubble outbuilding to the SW.
Stepped-down to the L (E) and adjoining, a later C17 or C18 rubble cowshed with parapeted gable with crude kneelers to E. Corrugated iron roof. (Reduced) entrance to the L with large timber lintel and a later window opening to R, now bricked-up. Boarded-shuttered opening above. Similar opening to gable end with 5 ventilation slits in stepped arrangement.
Reason for designation
A good early hay barn of historic interest and with group value with Hendre Ucha farmhouse.
Nearby in the register
- Agricultural Range tp SW of Plas HendreAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Plas HendreDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Old Smithy CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Attached SmithyIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.