Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Maes-y-llyn Farm Building
Llantysilio, Denbighshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Valle Crucis, Llangollen, Llantysilio, Denbighshire, designated on 7 June 1963.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 7 June 1963
- Locality
- Valle Crucis
- Town
- Llangollen
- Community
- Llantysilio
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.99339, -3.19092
- Cadw reference
- 19711
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)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
The building stands against and at right angles to the main Horseshoe Pass road, approximately 170m N of the Pillar of Eliseg.
History
The building was erected in the late C18 or early C19, re-using much stonework from Valle Crucis Abbey. Re-roofed in the late C19.
Exterior
Built of ashlar and rubble stonework reclaimed from Valley Crucis, with a slate roof. A single range of cowhouses and farm stores. It consists of an implement store at the W end, with a large opening to the S, the old timber lintel reinforced with a new timber lintel set below, a 1-bay animal house, a 3-bay barn, now used as a shearing shed, and an end storage bay against the road, the ashlar-built gable end set at an angle aligning with the road. Door openings on the S, mostly without doors, and ventilation windows, but the E end bay having small ventilation openings formed with re-used ovolo mullions. One blocked opening to this bay to the N, and a door to the adjacent barn.
Interior
The barn section has two original wrought tie beams, the roof replaced on later king-post trusses on a different spacing. The bay against the road has two parallel beams for a loft floor, now removed.
Reason for designation
Included as a well preserved and good example of a combined farmbuilding building, of additional interest as illustrating the established custom of plundering monastic ruins after the dissolution for re-useable stonework.
Nearby in the register
- Pillar of ElisegReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Eliseg's Pillar & TumulusRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box opposite Pillar of ElisegCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Well House at Abbey FarmWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.