Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former cow house, stable and dovecote at Colomendy
Ysceifiog, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 31 January 2001
- Locality
- Colomendy
- Community
- Ysceifiog
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.21423, -3.30155
- Cadw reference
- 24679
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 SW side of the farmhouse.
History
Built in the C17 and probably contemporary with the adjacent barn, dated 1657.
Exterior
A large, whitened rubble stone farm building built across the slope on a levelled site, retaining C19 slates on the L side and replaced with asbestos slates to the remainder. Openings have wooden lintels under segmental stone relieving arches. A stable is at the L end and comprises a boarded door and small window to its R, then another door and 2 small windows, and 2 loft openings below the eaves. The cow house has 5 doorways, which have boarded doors except the centre and R-hand, which are converted to windows with integral vents. The cow house has a single loft opening beneath the eaves.
Against the L gable end are external stone steps to an inserted boarded door. Against the R gable end is a brick lean-to, above which is a metal-framed window.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed as a rare example of a large C17 cow house retaining early character, and for group value with the adjacent barn and farmhouse, forming a substantial C17 farm group.
Nearby in the register
- Ysgubor ColomendyAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- ColomendyDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bakehouse with attached former pigsties at Coedmynydd IsafDomesticunder 1 mi
- Coedmynydd IsafDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.