Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cow shed 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
- 53.26290, -3.30804
- Cadw reference
- 26784
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 N side of the farmhouse.
History
Dated 1864 and originally opening to a stockyard on the W side. The cow shed, with contemporary cart shed and barn opposite, is shown on the 1871 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A rubble stone lofted cow shed of 6 bays with rock-faced dressings and quoins, and galvanised sheet metal roof on original trusses. Facing the yard are open bays under keyed elliptical arches. Of these, the 2 L-hand are part blocked with brick and are enclosed within a late C20 lean-to, while the R-hand is part blocked with brick and has an added lean-to. The loft has keyed segmental-headed boarded openings. The rear has similar rear loft openings, some with inserted glazing, while a central inserted doorway has flanking metal-framed windows of the mid C20. The 2 R-hand bays have narrow ventilation strips. The N (uphill) gable end has external steps, with treads renewed in concrete, to a segmental-headed loft doorway.
Interior
The 6-bay roof has trusses with king posts and raking struts. The tie beam at the N end is inscribed 'D Jones Esq 1864'.
Reason for designation
Listed for its contribution to an impressive farm group with the farmhouse and multi-purpose range opposite.
Nearby in the register
- Plas Cerrig Farmhouse, including attached former barn and bakehouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn, cart shed and granary at Plas Cerrig FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 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.