Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Range of buildings at Nant-y-creau
Pentrefoelas, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 October 1998
- Locality
- Pentrefoelas
- Town
- Pentrefoelas
- Community
- Pentrefoelas
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.05041, -3.67648
- Cadw reference
- 20577
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 1795 "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).
Cadw's description
Location
The range runs N-S, enclosing the farmyard on the E side, and separated from the other farm buildings by a driftway leading out to the N.
History
The building appears to be the early farmhouse for Nant-y-creau, but was altered in the late C18 or early C19 after the construction of the new farmhouse to the W, to become a cowhouse.
Exterior
Built of rubble stonework with a slate roof. Single storey, 5 bays with axial stack at the S, now removed, and a small bay, now a shearing shed, behind the stack, which has a stone walled pen, completing the farmyard. The building has a later large opening to the farmyard, and numerous blocked openings to the E, all with deep squared stone lintels outlined with a label course. These probably indicate a secondary use perhaps as a stable in the C19.
Interior
Large axial fireplace with lintel, now opened through the back to the shearing shed. Indications of an upper floor, which has now been removed.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Nant-y-Creau farmhouse.
Nearby in the register
- L-shaped range of farmyard buildings at Nant-y-creauAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Nant-y-creauDomesticunder 1 mi
- Melin VoelasCommercialunder 1 mi
- Parish ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.