Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Shippon at Pentre Farm
Halkyn, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pentre Halkyn, Holywell, Halkyn, Flintshire, designated on 31 January 2002.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 31 January 2002
- Locality
- Pentre Halkyn
- Town
- Holywell
- Community
- Halkyn
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.24409, -3.19981
- Cadw reference
- 26161
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 108 Flint (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 108 Flint (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the E side of the house, backing on to a minor road.
History
Built in the final quarter of the C19 and first shown on the 1899 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A shippon of rubble stone and slate roof. The front has 3 segmental-headed doorways, of which the L-hand is infilled and the R-hand has a boarded door. The loft has 2 openings with wooden frames. At the rear are 2 loft openings beneath the eaves, of which the R hand retains its original boarded shutter.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good C19 farm building of regional character and for group value with the old house and other associated listed items.
Nearby in the register
- Cart House and Stable at Bryn AwelAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Bryn AwelDomesticunder 1 mi
- Old House at Pentre FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
- Dovecote at Lygan-y-wernDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.