Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bryn Eithin & attached Agricultural Ranges
Bro Machno, Conwy, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bro Machno, Conwy, designated on 17 July 1992.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 17 July 1992
- Community
- Bro Machno
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.05141, -3.77622
- Cadw reference
- 5854
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
At end of track off minor road between Ysbyty Ifan and Penmachno Mill. Entrance to track at SH 813 519.
History
C18 farm house renovated in mid C19. L-shaped plan, with each arm of L extended as agricultural buildings.
Exterior
Entrance front faces SE. Two storey, three window; rubble masonry. Slate roof; stone end chimneys (rectangular); raking gable copings. On first floor, three 2-light casement windows set at eaves. Shallow single-storey gabled brick porch covers simple boarded door. Two ground floor casements flank door (3-light window to L, 2-light to R). Ground floor openings have deep stone lintels.
Stone outhouse to L with monopitch roof. Cast iron water pump to front. Front of house extended to R, at lower level as barn. Simple doors, simple stone lintels. Gabled roof with thin slates. Single threshing floor, no loft.
At rear of main block, door and window with stone lintels and some brick dressings.
At right angles, projecting gabled rear wing with rectangular stone chimney. Single first floor casement window; ground floor window under deep stone lintel. Wing extended at lower level as cowhouse. Thin slate roof in diminishing courses; large slab masonry; heavy stone lintels. Junction of roof with house protected by water tabling in house gable. Two almost square agricultural type windows with doorway (stable-type door) between; further doorway to R now blocked. Smaller vertically-proportioned window to R.
Interior
House has ground floor room to L of entrance has large fireplace with heavy wooden lintel, and roughly-chamfered beams. Roof has heavy A-frame trusses and purlins (visible in room to L).
Nearby in the register
- DugoedDomesticunder 1 mi
- Field Barn at Penrhyn UchafAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Root Camp at Ty'n y Coed UchafGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Ty'n Coed Isaf (Field Barn)Agriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.