Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
U- shaped Farmyard Ranges at Llay Hall Farm
Llay, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llay, Wrexham, designated on 3 June 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 3 June 1996
- Locality
- Llay
- Community
- Llay
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.09437, -3.00850
- Cadw reference
- 17706
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Reached from a farm track running S off the B5102, situated immediately to the W of Llay Hall Farm
History
Mid C19 farmyard ranges serving Llay Hall Farm replacing a range of timber-framed farmbuildings shown, approximately on the site of the present buildings, in an engraving of 1794.
Exterior
U-shaped range of 2-storey red brick barns with slate roofs, all-round brick band course and a dentil eaves cornice. High camber-headed cart entrance into the yard with keystone and brick voussoirs. The elevations facing the yard have camber-headed windows and boarded loft doors; some openings remodelled in C20. The upper floor has both diamond and diaper pattern ventilation holes and the gable ends of the end ranges have doveboxes and ledges. Interiors not inspected at time of 1995 survey.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Llay Hall Farm.
Nearby in the register
- Llay Hall FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pavilion at Llay Miners Welfare InstituteInstitutionalunder 1 mi
- Llay Miners Welfare InstituteRecreationalunder 1 mi
- Former Llay Hall Colliery Washery BuildingIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.