Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn at Branas Uchaf
Llandrillo, Denbighshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Branas, Llandrillo, Denbighshire, designated on 20 October 1966.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 20 October 1966
- Locality
- Branas
- Community
- Llandrillo
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.92453, -3.46604
- Cadw reference
- 699
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)
- 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)
- 1898 · 120 Corwen (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
The barn in one of a group of farm buildings to the NE of the farmhouse, It faces N towards the yard.
History
Probably C17.
Exterior
Barn of rubble stone under a corrugated roof, asbestos to N pitch and iron to S pitch. Added bay to R end with slate roof. Central doorway leading to winnowing passage, slightly raised, and with sliding corrugated steel door. Three ventilation slits to L of doorway; loft hatch with boarded door above. Single ventilation slit to R of doorway; full-height opening with steel door beyond, probably inserted later. Added bay has corrugated steel door to L, and small iron-framed window to R of attic storey. Rear elevation has small central raised doorway to winnowing passage, with stone lintel and containing a wooden boarded door. To each side of doorway, 3 ventilation slits not symmetrically arranged, and 2 loft hatches with stone sills. Those to R have boarded doors, those to L infilled with corrugated sheeting. Rear of added bay has small iron-framed window to R of ground floor and to L of attic storey. E gable end has 3 tiers of ventilation slits. Adjoining W gable end is a low range of former pig sties, of rubble stone with corrugated asbestos roofs and plain doorways. Large sty to L, smaller sty to R, both with pens in front with rubble stone boundary walls.
Interior
No access to interior at time of inspection. Said to have a plain tie-beam roof.
Reason for designation
Listed as a large C17 barn retaining its character, and for group value with Branas Uchaf and surrounding farm buildings.
Nearby in the register
- Multi-purpose Farm Building at Branas UchafAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Hayshed at Branas UchafAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cow-house at Branas UchafAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Branas UchafDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.