Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Agricultural Range at Pen-y-Bont
Ysbyty Ifan, Conwy, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Ysbyty Ifan, Conwy, designated on 8 April 1997.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 8 April 1997
- Locality
- Ysbyty Ifan
- Community
- Ysbyty Ifan
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.02425, -3.72819
- Cadw reference
- 18306
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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 120 Corwen (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Prominently sited at the crossroads at the western end of the village and enclosing a small farmyard behind Pen-y-Bont; facing the B 4407 to the NW and the main Ysbyty Ifan street to the SW.
History
Third-quarter C19 agricultural range; built to serve the contemporary Pen-y-Bont farm following the Eidda estate's purchase in 1856 by Lord Penrhyn of Penrhyn Castle.
Exterior
L-shaped agricultural range, partly storied, of rubble construction with hipped slate roofs and tiled ridges; dressed slate lintels to openings and finely-tooled, squared quoins. The S side has a plain boarded door to the L and a wide cart entrance to the R, also boarded. Above, three equally-spaced windows under the eaves, with 4-pane glazing and projecting cills. The W (road-facing) side has an upper entrance with deeply-recessed boarded door and a flight of 4 concrete and 2 slate steps. Similar entrance to W return of projecting arm, though with steps removed. To the L the range steps down to continue as single storey; weathercoursing at the junction. Similar stepped upper entrance to an early C20 red brick, gabled loading bay; recessed boarded door. The E (farmyard) side has a boarded stable door to the storeyed section, with flanking windows on both floors; 12-pane sashes, the lower sections missing (upper) and boarded (ground floor). Further openings to the lower section at R in the arrangement window, door, window, door (formerly 4 entrances); piggeries beyond. The N return on the farmyard side has a boarded door to the ground floor at L, with an upper entrance at R via a C20 metal stair.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Pen-y-Bont farmhouse and Pen-y-Bont, the former inn.
Nearby in the register
- Pen-y-Bont (formerly Penrhyn Arms Inn)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Pen-y-Bont FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cartshed at Pen-y-BontAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Former Corn MillIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.