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
19711
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
07/06/1963
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Maes-y-llyn Farm Building
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Llantysilio
Town
Llangollen
Locality
Valle Crucis
Easting
320161
Northing
344671
Street Side
W
Location
The building stands against and at right angles to the main Horseshoe Pass road, approximately 170m N of the Pillar of Eliseg.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
The building was erected in the late C18 or early C19, re-using much stonework from Valle Crucis Abbey. Re-roofed in the late C19.
Exterior
Built of ashlar and rubble stonework reclaimed from Valley Crucis, with a slate roof. A single range of cowhouses and farm stores. It consists of an implement store at the W end, with a large opening to the S, the old timber lintel reinforced with a new timber lintel set below, a 1-bay animal house, a 3-bay barn, now used as a shearing shed, and an end storage bay against the road, the ashlar-built gable end set at an angle aligning with the road. Door openings on the S, mostly without doors, and ventilation windows, but the E end bay having small ventilation openings formed with re-used ovolo mullions. One blocked opening to this bay to the N, and a door to the adjacent barn.
Interior
The barn section has two original wrought tie beams, the roof replaced on later king-post trusses on a different spacing. The bay against the road has two parallel beams for a loft floor, now removed.
Reason for designation
Included as a well preserved and good example of a combined farmbuilding building, of additional interest as illustrating the established custom of plundering monastic ruins after the dissolution for re-useable stonework.
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