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.
Date of Designation
10/11/1994
Date of Amendment
10/11/1994
Name of Property
Bryn Cwnin Farmhouse
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Location
At the end of Pentre Lane, approx. 2km NE of Rhuddlan.
History
The farmhouse was built c1820, although fragments of earlier buildings nearby suggest that the farm itself had been established well before that time.
Exterior
Brick with hipped slate roof, with axial stacks. 2 storeys, square in plan. Entrance front faces N: 3-window range with central entrance hall. 8-panelled door (modified by the insertion of glazing into 2 panels) in architrave with long brackets carrying entablature hood, set in segmental archway. 16-pane hornless sashes with stone sills and flat arched stone heads. Dentilled eaves band. W elevation articulated by 2 full-height recessed arches, which have wide 4-pane sash windows with flat arched gauged brick heads on each floor. S elevation has advanced pedimented central bay (the pediment surmounted by a chimney), and 12-pane sash windows which are set at varying heights to ground floor; continuous sill band to first floor, and 1 blind window to left.
Reason for designation
A well-detailed example of a substantial early C19 farmhouse, with a distinctive architectural character. It forms part of an almost intact farmstead, with the farmbuildings which face it across a yard
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