Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn, cart shed and granary at Plas Cerrig Farm
Caerwys, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Plas Cerrig, Caerwys, Flintshire, designated on 19 July 2002.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 19 July 2002
- Locality
- Plas Cerrig
- Community
- Caerwys
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.26294, -3.30846
- Cadw reference
- 26783
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales
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 NW side of the farmhouse.
History
Built in 1864 with the cow shed opposite and shown on the 1871 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A rubble-stone farm building with rock-faced quoins and dressings and slate roof behind coped gables on moulded kneelers. Aligned N-S, the cart shed, with granary above, is at the S end, the barn at the N end. Openings have arched heads with keystones. Facing the yard on the E side, the 2-bay cart shed has elliptical arches, and a segmental-headed doorway with boarded door to the R. In the granary above are 3 segmental-headed openings, the central retaining its boarded door, the outer with added glazing. The barn has a segmental-headed doorway with boarded door, to the L of which are 2 tiers of ventilation strips (partly infilled), and with a boarded doorway upper R. The S gable end has external stone steps to a segmental-headed boarded door to the granary. The barn has a doorway at the rear similar to the front, to the L of which is an added lean-to. To the R of centre are 4 loft openings similar to the front, and a segmental-headed window in the rear of the cart shed.
Interior
The barn has a 3-bay king-post roof. Between barn and cart shed is a full-height rubble-stone dividing wall.
Reason for designation
Listed as a C19 farm building retaining original character and as part of an impressive farm group with the farmhouse and cow shed.
Nearby in the register
- Cow shed at Plas Cerrig FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Plas Cerrig Farmhouse, including attached former barn and bakehouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ty Coch with attached agricultural rangeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pen-y-graig round barrowRound Barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.