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
18781
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
11/08/1997
Date of Amendment
11/08/1997
Name of Property
Barn at Rhyd-y-Creuau
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Bro Garmon
Town
Locality
A470
Easting
280273
Northing
357200
Street Side
W
Location
Located 100m NW of the farmhouse, at the northern end of the farmyard; behind a modern barn complex.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Large and imposing vernacular barn, dated 1788.
Exterior
Rubble construction on a rubble plinth with corrugated asbestos roof; the former rubble gable parapets have been removed. Wide central entrances to both long sides, with segmental heads and projecting archrings; dressed slatestone voussoirs and quoins. Square open loading bays to far L and R on N face; blocked ventilation slits to sides and gable ends.
Interior
7-bay interior with original pegged collar trusses and, flanking the central (threshing floor) bay, tie-beam trusses with raking struts. Of these, that to the E is inscribed: 'I.G. 1788'.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special historic interest as a fine example of a dated late C18 vernacular barn.
Group value with the Hay Barn at Rhyd-y-Creuau.
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