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
18321
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/04/1997
Date of Amendment
08/04/1997
Name of Property
Former Drying Houses
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Ysbyty Ifan
Town
Locality
Ysbyty Ifan
Easting
284166
Northing
348726
Street Side
W
Location
Located at the bottom of a slope, 50m E of the road, diagonally behind Mill Street; set against the incline.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
Drying house, perhaps of C18 date, associated with the corn mill to the N. The mill is mentioned in 1767 and although itself rebuilt in the third quarter C19, the drying house is possibly primary. A further drying house was added to the S at the time of the mill's rebuilding, thereby forming a conjoined pair. The siting of such houses, away from the mill to minimise fire risk, is typical.
Exterior
Two adjoining drying houses, both of random rubble with slate roofs and tiled ridges. The earlier, northern range is single storey and has a gabled, slatted louvre of corrugated iron. Modern boarded entrances to far L and R, the latter with timber surround and (replaced) exposed lintel, the former to eaves height. The N gable end shows stepped-down creasing, indicating the former presence of a further range; loading bay to rear with modern boarded door. The later range is stepped-up to the S and has a steeper roof pitch and one-and-a-half storeys. Entrance to R with cambered red brick head and recessed, modern boarded door; slatted vent above. Similar slatted vent to S gable.
Interior
The northern range retains an internal stone stair leading from the entrance at L to the (former) drying floor. The stoking hole to the kiln is visible at the northern end. The later, southern range has its drying floor partly intact to the southern section; this has ceramic tiles set onto an iron grid. Stoking hole to northern section with vented loft over.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a scarce surviving example of a grain drying complex.
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