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
1504
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/07/1986
Date of Amendment
12/03/2003
Name of Property
Tre-castell Farmhouse
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Dyserth
Town
Locality
Tre-castell
Easting
306682
Northing
379381
Street Side
Location
100 m south of Newmarket Road (A5151), about 500 m east of Dyserth Village. On rising ground facing N; farmyard reached by trackway from main road.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
There is mention of Trecastell in Edward Llwyd''''''''s Parochialia of c.1699. The present farmhouse, probably of C17 date, was of 2 large units with an entrance between, the front door now converted to a window. In 1839 Trecastell was a farm of the Bishop of St Asaph, tenanted by James Hughes.
Exterior
A rendered stone farmhouse of 4 windows and 2 storeys, with slate roof and tile ridge. The 3 older chimney stacks (L end and 2 mid-chimneys) are paired and linked at cornice level. The R end chimney has a simple stack. Four-pane C19/20 horned sash windows to front elevation, the windows varying in size. Stone enclosed porch to right.
The architrave and cornice mouldings of the original doorway are eroded but remain visible beneath the render.
The rear elevation has large gables to right and centrally, with modern windows in irregularly positioned openings. Small flat-roofed porch centrally, within which is a boarded, counterboarded and nail-studded door.
Interior
Plan originally with inside-cross-passage; large hearth to W; the house later lengthened. Exposed chamfered beams and joists. The large hearth has a timber bressummer, partly cut away. Staircase at rear with heavily moulded string, moulded handrail; balusters believed to be boxed in. There is a bedroom corner fireplace with ovolo-moulded jambs and a simple cyma cornice above; 3 cast-iron bedroom hearths.
Reason for designation
Listed as a late vernacular farmhouse which has retained its character.
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