Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former cruck house in Tan-y-ffordd farmyard
Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Waterfall Road, Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, Powys, designated on 29 August 2003.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 29 August 2003
- Locality
- Waterfall Road
- Community
- Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.83612, -3.32273
- Cadw reference
- 81819
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 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)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 137 Oswestry (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
At the north corner of the west range of farm buildings associated with Tan-y-ffordd Ochor farmhouse.
History
A cruck house of the C15 or C16, partially surviving in farm outbuildings. A stone chimney was inserted (C16/17?) in what may have been the cross-passage position; a small chimney was also formed in the north gable; the house was finally given stone walls and incorporated in the farm buildings (possibly when the present farmhouse was built in the mid C19).
Exterior
Farm outbuilding in local shaley quasi-rubble stonework, mostly with asbestos sheet roof covering. Part of early external chimney stack survives in the north gable.
Interior
A two-bay survival of what was probably a three- or four-bay cruck house. Two cruck frames remain. The northern frame is complete with a collar beam and a yoke, the blades abutting at the apex in the usual Denbighshire detail; tie beam with wattle and daub panels above and with the mortices of a lost post-and-panel partition visible in the soffit, the arris chamfered over the panel positions. This tie beam is linked to the north gable by a chamfered and stopped longitudinal beam.
The southern surviving frame is incomplete, having been cut to admit a later central chimney and cut at the feet. The chimney serves a large fireplace facing north, with timber bressummer.
A later fireplace in the north gable has been walled up.
Reason for designation
Listed for interior interest as substantial remains of domestic cruck construction with inserted chimney.
Nearby in the register
- Milestone near TanrhalltTransportunder 1 mi
- Milestone near Gardden-fachTransportunder 1 mi
- Ty'n-y-Celyn Castle MoundMotteunder 1 mi
- HenfacheAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.