Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
U-Shaped Agricultural Range to the west of Fron Hall
Gwernymynydd, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 12 December 1994
- Community
- Gwernymynydd
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.15037, -3.16417
- Cadw reference
- 15257
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 to the W of Fron Hall, on raised ground and behind an overgrown cobbled courtyard.
Exterior
A large U-shaped symmetrical agricultural range dated 1762, consisting of a central barn with flanking stables. Rubble with freestone dressings under a medium-pitched slate roof with moulded eaves cornice. Shaped, moulded kneelers and coped gables to the flanking ranges. Large centrally-placed barn entrance to the central section with segmental arched head, rusticated voussoirs and central keystone. This is inscribed R W 1762. Boarded doors to the upper half. Flanking ventilation slits in sham medieval military style. These consist of groupings of a central lozenge flanked by large cross-loops with trefoil heads, round bases and crescent-shaped sides. Above, a horizontal dumb-bell-type sham gun-loop. The gabled wings have pointed-arched window openings to the ground floors with voussoirs as before (that to the R now lowered). Segmental-arched windows above. The inner face of the L (SW) wing has an entrance to the L, cambered, with voussoirs as described, and a further door and window to the R with an open oculus above. Recessed and boarded doors. The R (NE) wing has a door, window, door, door arrangement, the central window and door being modern. Brick stack to L. In the L wing survive contemporary wooden loose boxes.
Reason for designation
A finely detailed and well composed mid-C18 agricultural range of evident sophistication and quality and in a largely unaltered condition.
Nearby in the register
- Fron HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Fron Isa Farmhouse at Fron HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Chimney at Fron HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Dovecot at Plas OnnDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.