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
16141
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/06/1995
Date of Amendment
14/06/1995
Name of Property
Cowshed Range at Rhual
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Gwernaffield with Pantmwyn
Town
Locality
Rhual
Easting
322118
Northing
364919
Street Side
Location
Situated in the yard to the north of Rhual reached from a drive running N off the Mold/Gwernaffield by-road.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Constructed mid C18, interior substantially altered with loss of roof structure, late C20.
Exterior
Random rubble with roughly squared quoins, dressed stone surrounds to openings. Zinc roof with timber bellcote at S end surmounted by a weather vane with the figure of a running fox. Elevation to yard has a range of three openings with arched heads, the central one has a circular pitching eye above. To the right of this a tall arched cart entrance with a small circular pitching eye, and further range of three openings to the right with a further cart entrance, now blocked, in the end bay.
Interior
The roof structure has been replaced with a later C20 iron roof. The interior has been altered and subdivided, but some elements of the C18 ceilings survive in places.
Reason for designation
Group value with the cruck barn, stables and Rhual.
Listed as an example of a C18 farm building of quality which retains much of its external character.
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