Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cow house at Gelli Bach
Nannerch, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 30 August 2002
- Locality
- Gelli
- Community
- Nannerch
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.21153, -3.23513
- Cadw reference
- 26916
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 N side of the house.
History
A Penbedw Estate farm building dated 1895, and represents one of several farmsteads on the estate improved by Henry Buddicom after he inherited Penbedw in 1893. Gelli Bach is a C19 roadside smallholding shown on the 1871 Ordnance Survey, when it had an agricultural range on the site of the present cow house. The present cow house is shown on the 1899 second edition.
Exterior
A rubble-stone cow house with bullnose brick dressings and brick quoins, and slate roof with an inserted small skylight. Facing the yard are 3 segmental-headed doorways with boarded doors. A small blockwork shed is added to the R end. The R gable end has, to the R of the added shed, a segmental-headed metal-framed window incorporating sliding vents, above which is a tablet with 'H&S B 1895' in raised letters and numerals. The rear elevation has a similar metal-framed window to the L and a boarded door to the R. A blockwork projection is built against the L gable end.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved cow house retaining estate character, and forming a complete small farmstead with the house.
Nearby in the register
- Gelli BachDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lime Kiln at Pen-y-Gelli FarmIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Lime kiln S of Bwlch HouseIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Round Barrow 450m E of Penbedw HallRound Barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.