Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn at Ty Mawr
Corwen, Denbighshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 1 February 1995
- Locality
- Four Crosses
- Community
- Corwen
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.97688, -3.43807
- Cadw reference
- 15550
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
Built alongside the road at Ty Mawr, which is on the A494 between Druid and Four Crosses.
History
Built in at least 3 phases, but the earliest part of the range, which is cruck framed, may be C16 or C17
Exterior
The central section is externally random rubble with timber framed upper section, comprising short posts running between wall plate and sill, clad with corrugated iron sheet; similar sheet roof covering. Internally this section has 2 pairs of raised crucks, supported by the stone plinth wall, and with rough tie beam, collar and saddle. Stable forms extension of this range to the NE: rough random rubble with slate roof; single bay with external staircase leading to gabled loft entry to left, and doorway with timber lintel to right. Further extension to SW may have been a former shippon: rough random rubble with corrugated iron sheet to roof, stone coped gable; 3 doorways, the outer 2 now partially blocked as windows.
Reason for designation
Part of a group with the farmhouse at Ty Mawr, the barn is an unusually intact example of its constructional type, with the survival of the cruck frame, and the external walls which combine a high stone plinth and timber framing - a type of construction once common in the area, but now becoming rare.
Nearby in the register
- Ty MawrDomesticunder 1 mi
- The DruidsCommercialunder 1 mi
- Penlan FawrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of Saint James the GreatReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.