Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Timber-framed Barn in Yard at Hafod-y-Bwch Hall
Esclusham, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 8 December 1995
- Locality
- Rhostyllen
- Community
- Esclusham
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.02385, -3.02974
- Cadw reference
- 16569
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
Forms one side of the farmyard NE of the hall.
History
The barn is probably of late C17 date.
Exterior
Timber-framed construction: box-framed with principle timbers braced vertical posts and minor horizontal members. Brick nogging, with some rubble in the N bay; slate roof. W elevation partially obscured by later lean-to addition, but the E elevation retains a regular pattern of loft entries and a doorway aligned with a western entrance to indicate the threshing bay.
Interior
5 bays, each framed with sill beam and tie beam braced to wall posts. Most are braced A-frame trusses, with one queen-post truss towards the N, and one of the central trusses uses an elaborately stop-chamfered re-used tie-beam.
Reason for designation
Listed for its group value with Hafod-y-Bwch Hall, and as a well-preserved example of a timber-framed barn retaining a high degree of structural integrity.
Nearby in the register
- Hafod-y-Bwch HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Hadfod-y-Bwlch Round BarrowRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Gate Piers at Hafod-y-Bwch HallAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Croesfoel FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.