Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
14972
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/11/1962
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Workshop Range at Abbey Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Rhuddlan
Town
Locality
Easting
302898
Northing
377489
Street Side
E
Location
On the southern edge of Rhuddlan close to the E bank of the River Clwyd. The buildings form the W range of the farmyard.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Abbey Farm occupies the site of, and incorporates some of the remains of, a Dominican Friary founded in or before 1258. The farmyard is on the site of the cloister, and the buildings appear to be at least partially built into standing remains of the Friary. Development as farm-buildings took place in 2 main phases, probably in the early Cl9. The range forms part of a courtyard farmstead, together with the nearby barn and cowhouse, and the farmhouse.
Exterior
To the N is a 2-storeyed, 3-window range, possibly originally a small stable and cartshed: 2 open bays with a central pier carrying timber lintels over the ground floor to the right, and a separate doorway with brick arched head to the left, and external staircase to upper door which is flanked by loft windows. The staircase is a later addition which cuts a voussoir headed window. The southern building may be somewhat earlier: it is also 2-storeyed and a 3-window range, with 2 wide doorways and a single window under a common lintel. Advanced bay to right forms an outshut, and has single window with cambered stone head. Part of tomb slab with cross-circle motif, of early C14 date, is incorporated into the wall over the doorway. Western elevation to rear of this range represents some of the original fabric of an abbey building. The construction of the southern section of the wall (which continues beyond the line of the present buildings) is uncoursed rubble and markedly different from other buildings on the site, including the extension of this building to the N; in addition, the regular spacing and alignment of the 4 pointed-arched windows in the southern section suggests that they may be in situ. In the northern section, a further similar window is on a different alignment and is probably re-sited. Below it, a blocked pointed arched doorway.
Interior
Reason for designation
The buildings are of special importance for their incorporation of the remains of the former Dominican Friary, a building type scarce in Wales. They also form part of a late C18-early Cl9 farm complex, which survives substantially intact.
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