Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hen Blas
Clocaenog, Denbighshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Clocaenog, Ruthin, Denbighshire, designated on 12 January 2001.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 12 January 2001
- Locality
- Clocaenog
- Town
- Ruthin
- Community
- Clocaenog
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.07604, -3.37602
- Cadw reference
- 24504
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 120 Corwen (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
To the west of the village of Clocaenog, reached by a farm track to the south of the road to Plas Clocaenog.
History
The farm of Hen Blas appears on the draft Ordnance Survey plan of c.1819. It appears on the Tithe Survey of 1839 as Henblas, owned by the Robert Jones and occupied by William Jones.
Exterior
A large two-storey farmhouse in local masonry, which appears to be of the Georgian or Regency period.
Reason for designation
A farmhouse in local materials which is believed to have escaped recent alteration and to have retained its historic character.
Nearby in the register
- Ty IsaDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of St FoddhydReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- War Memorial in St Foddhyd's ChurchyardReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Sundial in St Foddhyd's ChurchyardMiscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.