Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bakehouse at Garneddwen Fawr
Ysceifiog, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 6 November 1962
- Locality
- Garneddwen
- Community
- Ysceifiog
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.22474, -3.23953
- Cadw reference
- 24665
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
On the NE side of the farmhouse.
History
A characteristic local building type of early C19 date.
Exterior
An early C19 rubble stone bakehouse with corrugated iron roof and a tall rubble-stone stack to the L. Against the L gable end is a low, round rubble stone projection housing the oven. The front wall has a single doorway, which has a boarded door with inserted glazed panel. The rear wall a window below the eaves renewed in an earlier opening.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved C19 bakehouse (characteristic of this area), which forms part of a group with the farmhouse and adjacent barn.
Nearby in the register
- Barn with attached stable and pigsties at Garneddwen FawrAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Garneddwen FawrDomesticunder 1 mi
- RhewlDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gate piers at original entrance to CoedybrainGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.