Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Mill, Threshing Barn and Cart Shed at Church Farm
Wick, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 27 November 1998
- Locality
- Picket
- Community
- Wick
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.44816, -3.54093
- Cadw reference
- 20978
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Picket is a hamlet on the NE boundary of Wick Community. The farm buildings are to the S of Church Farm.
History
Farm buildings forming a Victorian Model Farm. Farmhouse to N was the Home Farm to the Clemenstone Estate.
Exterior
Mill orientated E-W with further ranges to N. The mill is 3-storey, of rubble stone, with a slate covered hipped roof. External stack to W. Openings generally with segmental heads with voussoirs, and containing planked doors and hatches. Three 1st floor doorways to front, the central one reached by stone steps. Two-storey range adjoining at right angles to N, beyond which is a threshing barn with wide central opening and raised eaves forming porch. Abutting the W end of the front is a right-angled single storey range; a former cart shed with open bays to the internal side, the eaves supported on cast iron columns.
Reason for designation
Included as part of an interesting group of Victorian Model farm buildings. Group value with other buildings of same farm, to S.
Nearby in the register
- Outbuilding at Church FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding at Church FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Outbuiding at Church FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding at Church farmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.