Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
C-shaped Agricultural Range at Melai
Llanfair Talhaiarn, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 30 January 1968
- Locality
- Melai
- Community
- Llanfair Talhaiarn
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.19503, -3.64661
- Cadw reference
- 193
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 to the W of the main farm group at Melai, on the W side of the Nant Melai.
History
Early C19 carthouse with adjoining barn, built as part of a large farm group, apparently c1804 to serve Melai. This was an important seat in the early medieval period and was the ancestral home of the Wynnes of Melai and Maenan Abbey; from this house descended the Wynnes of Garthewin and the Lords Newborough of Rug. Melai produced High Sheriffs for Denbighshire in 1577, 1586, 1614, 1637 and finally 1712; thereafter Melai appears to have been tenanted.
Exterior
C-shaped, single-storey agricultural range of local rubble construction with slated roofs and tiled ridges. The range consists of a 4-bay gabled carthouse block to the N and a barn to the S, with a low connecting cart-bay block linking the two to the W. The carthouse block has 4 segmentally-arched openings to its N face, with rough-dressed voussoirs. The lower adjoining range has 4 plain openings and a modern corrugated iron pentise lean-to in front. The barn section, although adjacent, is technically separated from the two former ranges, though is linked to them by the pentise. It has a large, full-height entrance to its S side, with modern boarded door; to the L is a tall ventilation slit and on the W gable end is a loading bay.
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of survey.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special historic and architectural interest as part of a particularly fine early C19 agricultural group.
Group value with other listed items at Melai.
Nearby in the register
- Former Stable and Coach-house Range at MelaiDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn Range at MelaiAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Bridge immediately SW of MelaiTransportunder 1 mi
- MelaiDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.