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
19868
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/05/1998
Date of Amendment
15/05/1998
Name of Property
Former Domestic Range at Plas Isaf
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Llannefydd
Town
Locality
Pont Meredydd
Easting
295779
Northing
372459
Street Side
Location
Located within a farmyard approximately 30m NE of Plas Isaf farmhouse.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Former domestic range, originally forming part of the unit-planned Plas Isaf. Of c1600, the building is associated with the slightly later main house, though it has been a store since at least the C19, at which time it was extended to the SE (towards the main house) with a low catslide-roofed addition.
Exterior
One-and-a-half storey rectangular building of rubble construction, with roughly-squared limestone quoins and some surviving external render and limewash; slate roof. Late C19 brick central chimney with oversailing upper courses; reduced earlier C19 chimney to the S corner. The NW gable has an original 3-light window to the upper (attic) floor, with chamfered sandstone surround and moulded label, though the mullions have been removed; C20 glazing. Above this is a segmental relieving arch with rough-dressed voussoirs. The ground-floor SW wall has a further 3-light window, now visible within the later outshut; its sandstone mullions survive, though the window is blocked with rubble infill. The SE gable has a former entrance to the R, now reduced to a 2-light window, with an original 4-light wooden mullioned window above. External stone-stepped access to upper entrance with boarded door. The NE (farmyard-facing) side has an off-centre entrance (R) with boarded stable door and exposed timber lintel; to the L is an open window, formerly an entrance, with open wooden frame and exposed timber lintel. The SW side has a low catslide extension with central entrance and C19 boarded door; small flanking 4-pane C19 sliding sashes. The NW return has a re-used late C17 oak pegged cross-window with surviving leaded quarries to the upper section; this window was probably reused from the main house in the C19.
Adjoining the former domestic range to the NW (R) and set back slightly is a long low byre addition; of rubble construction with corrugated iron roof. This has a C20 2-pane window to the L and two entrances to the R, the first with stable door and the farthest with modern steel door.
Interior
Beamed ceiling to former hall with stopped-chamfered main beams and neatly stopped-chamfered joists; mortising evidence indicates a former partition dividing this from a cross-passage, originally with opposing entrances. Three-bay pegged collar truss roof to attic floor, the SE truss formerly a partition truss. This has a simple Tudor-arched door-head cut into the collar.
Reason for designation
Listed for the special interest of its origins as a late C16/early C17 domestic range.
Group value with Plas Isaf farmhouse.
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