Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn at Rhyd-y-Creuau
Bro Garmon, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 11 August 1997
- Locality
- A470
- Community
- Bro Garmon
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.09853, -3.78959
- Cadw reference
- 18781
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Located 100m NW of the farmhouse, at the northern end of the farmyard; behind a modern barn complex.
History
Large and imposing vernacular barn, dated 1788.
Exterior
Rubble construction on a rubble plinth with corrugated asbestos roof; the former rubble gable parapets have been removed. Wide central entrances to both long sides, with segmental heads and projecting archrings; dressed slatestone voussoirs and quoins. Square open loading bays to far L and R on N face; blocked ventilation slits to sides and gable ends.
Interior
7-bay interior with original pegged collar trusses and, flanking the central (threshing floor) bay, tie-beam trusses with raking struts. Of these, that to the E is inscribed: 'I.G. 1788'.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special historic interest as a fine example of a dated late C18 vernacular barn.
Group value with the Hay Barn at Rhyd-y-Creuau.
Nearby in the register
- Haybarn at Rhyd-y-CreuauAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Agricultural Range at Rhyd-y-CreuauAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Plas MuriauDomesticunder 1 mi
- St Michael's ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.