Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Beehive Pigsty at Peacock Farm
Halkyn, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Rhes-y-cae, Holywell, Halkyn, Flintshire, designated on 13 January 1987.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 13 January 1987
- Locality
- Rhes-y-cae
- Town
- Holywell
- Community
- Halkyn
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.23010, -3.21894
- Cadw reference
- 553
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 W side of the house, which is reached by a track and is 150m NNE of the parish church.
Exterior
A late C18 or early C19 oval animal shelter construction to ancient corbelled technique, comprising rubble stone walls and vault. The top is partly missing. A low entrance on the S side has a stone lintel (a former timber shutter is missing). Small opening at rear. Well-preserved interior with lower earth floor.
Reason for designation
Listed as a rare surviving example in N Wales of a once common agricultural building type.
Nearby in the register
- Christ ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Bryn IdrisDomesticunder 1 mi
- Waen FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Stores HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.