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Stable & Cartshed Block at Pen-Y-Bont Farm

Bro Machno, Conwy, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Bro Machno, Conwy, designated on 17 July 1992.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Stable & Cartshed Block at Pen-Y-Bont Farm, Bro Machno, Conwy, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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
53.02365, -3.81821
Cadw reference
5884

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 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)
  • 1899 · 119 Snowdon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Cadw's description

Pen-y-Bont Farm is immediately to SE of main road, approx 2 km SW of Penmachno village. Stable and Cartshed Block is to NW of farmhouse.

Part of C19 group of farm buildings built c1870 by Penrhyn Estate. (Datestone '1870' by granary window).

Two-storey stable and cartshed block (with granary and stable loft on upper floor). Hipped slate roof, rubble walls with deep stone lintels. First floor (facing NE) has 4 square windows; ground floor has, to L, broad cartshed doorway and to R stable door flanked by windows. Stable (cobbled floor) has wooden stalls plus loose box. At rear of block stone stair up to lofts (kennel beneath).

Listed as part of fine group of C19 estate-built farm buildings.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0
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