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
15257
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
12/12/1994
Date of Amendment
12/12/1994
Name of Property
U-Shaped Agricultural Range to the west of Fron Hall
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Gwernymynydd
Town
Locality
Easting
322240
Northing
362104
Street Side
W
Location
Located to the W of Fron Hall, on raised ground and behind an overgrown cobbled courtyard.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Exterior
A large U-shaped symmetrical agricultural range dated 1762, consisting of a central barn with flanking stables. Rubble with freestone dressings under a medium-pitched slate roof with moulded eaves cornice. Shaped, moulded kneelers and coped gables to the flanking ranges. Large centrally-placed barn entrance to the central section with segmental arched head, rusticated voussoirs and central keystone. This is inscribed R W 1762. Boarded doors to the upper half. Flanking ventilation slits in sham medieval military style. These consist of groupings of a central lozenge flanked by large cross-loops with trefoil heads, round bases and crescent-shaped sides. Above, a horizontal dumb-bell-type sham gun-loop. The gabled wings have pointed-arched window openings to the ground floors with voussoirs as before (that to the R now lowered). Segmental-arched windows above. The inner face of the L (SW) wing has an entrance to the L, cambered, with voussoirs as described, and a further door and window to the R with an open oculus above. Recessed and boarded doors. The R (NE) wing has a door, window, door, door arrangement, the central window and door being modern. Brick stack to L. In the L wing survive contemporary wooden loose boxes.
Interior
Reason for designation
A finely detailed and well composed mid-C18 agricultural range of evident sophistication and quality and in a largely unaltered condition.
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