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
178
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/01/1968
Date of Amendment
02/07/1998
Name of Property
Llan Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Betws Yn Rhos
Town
Abergele
Locality
Llanelian-yn-Rhos
Easting
286356
Northing
376343
Street Side
Location
Located in the centre of the village at the main cross-roads with its gable at right-angles to the road; facing a small forecourt with part-enclosing whitened rubble walls.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Late medieval 4-bay cruck-framed hall house, probably of the late C15. This originally consisted of an open 2-bay hall (with central hearth) and a service bay and unheated parlour flanking to L and R respectively. The house was encased in rubble and the hall and parlour provided with lateral chimneys, probably in the early C17; it was subsequently extended to the NW to form an L-plan, resulting in the parlour's chimney becoming incorporated as a central stack.
Exterior
Single-storey lateral chimney house with one-and-a-half storey addition at right-angles to the NW, forming an L-plan. Cruck construction encased in whitened rubble (though the road-facing gable apex remains exposed); thatched roof to the primary section with renewed slated roof to the addition; 2 large plain chimneys, the lateral one to the original part with thatched gable. The entrance front faces NW and has a near-central rubble porch with catslide thatched roof; C20 boarded door. To the L of this is a 4-pane sash (a replacement of a C19 original); to the R is a paired sash window of similar type. The additional wing advances one bay to the R and has further plain sashes to the ground and first floors of its gable; projecting sills throughout. To the rear of the main section are further windows, as before.
Interior
The original 4-bay interior survives, with the 2-bay open hall and single-bay chambers at either end. The opposing entry of the former cross-passage is no longer evident. The hall has a chamfered pair of cruck blades, their ends embedded within the (later) rubble walling; plain pegged collar truss. Large lateral fireplace with flat stopped-chamfered bressummer (ogee stops). At the lower (entrance) end is a full cruck partition truss with primary post and panel partition surviving largely intact. This has grooved decoration and a central Tudor-arched entrance; the upper truss has wattles exposed, though the original dawb infill panels have been removed. The upper (parlour) end has a similar truss with plain chamfered post-and-panel screen. This has a modern winding stair cut through to the R and an early C19 (or earlier) entrance with broad, plain architrave to the centre.
Reason for designation
Listed Grade II* for its special interest as a scarce surviving example of a late medieval cruck-framed thatched hall house.
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