Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn/Cowhouse Range at Pen-Y-Bont Farm
Bro Machno, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 17 July 1992
- Community
- Bro Machno
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.02378, -3.81828
- Cadw reference
- 5886
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
Pen-y-Bont Farm is immediately to SE of main road, approx 2 km SW of Penmachno village. The Barn/Cowhouse Range is to NNW of farmhouse.
History
Part of C19 group of farm buildings built c1870 by Penrhyn Estate. (Datestone '1870' by granary window).
Exterior
Barn rises higher than cowhouse and has hipped slate roof; rubble with stressed quoins, stone lintels. Opposing central doorways (modern boarded doors). Vertical vent slits. Long cowhouse range attached in line with barn. Lower than barn with hipped roof to N. Six doorways face W (deep stone lintels); but doorway on extreme R blocked to form window.
Interior
Interior connecting doorway to cowhouse which has longitudinal feeding passage.
Reason for designation
Listed as part of fine group of C19 estate-built farm buildings.
Nearby in the register
- Stable & Cartshed Block at Pen-Y-Bont FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
- Haybarn at Pen-Y-Bont FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Pen-Y-Bont FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pigsties at Pen-Y-Bont FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.