Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Braich
Derwen, Denbighshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 10 February 1999
- Locality
- Derwen
- Town
- Corwen
- Community
- Derwen
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.05493, -3.40465
- Cadw reference
- 21364
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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
About 1.5km NW of Derwen at head of small cwm.
History
Mid C18 with attached C19 (post-1842) outbuildings.
Exterior
Stone-built farmhouse in axe-dressed masonry with wash-house, rear wing and attached outbuilding ranges, the house and parts of the outbuildings limewashed. Three window one-and-a-half storey house, slate roofed, with end chimneys in exposed stone. Modern casement glazing in altered openings. Upper floor has 3 dormers set across eaves. Central doorway with bracketed gabled hood; boarded door. At right end, a unit (not original) sharing same roof line: small window at eaves; boarded door and small window to right. At left an attached slate-roofed stone outbuilding with single altered door and altered window at front probably also not contemporary with the house.
To left, stepped down, is an L-shaped C19 farm range in undressed rubble masonry. Single-storey stone outbuilding nearly in line with the house, with corrugated roof; central small-pane window between 2 doors. At right angles towards east is an outbuilding with 3 doors to front, perhaps originally a barn; central door altered. Two further outbuilding units, stepping down, the first with corrugated roof, perhaps originally a cartshed, the second slate-roofed but ruinous.
Reason for designation
A complete farmstead group of traditional kind, the house and its associated buildings forming an L-plan.
Nearby in the register
- Ffynnon SaraReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Garw Fynydd CairnPlatform Cairnunder 1 mi
- Maen Llwyd Standing StoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- Bryn Beddau Stone CircleStone Circleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.