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
20148
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/07/1998
Date of Amendment
22/07/1998
Name of Property
Henllys Farmhouse
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Llanfair Talhaiarn
Town
Locality
Henllys
Easting
290856
Northing
369553
Street Side
Location
Located 150m S of the Afon Elwy approximately 2km SW of Llanfair Talhaiarn and immediately to the N of the old road from Llanfair to Llangernyw; sited on a gentle rise with the lower farmyard to the rear.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
An ancient site; a sub-medieval house, long used as a farm building, survived until c1990. The present farmhouse is of c1830 and displays a curious mixture of classical and Tudorbethan stylistic influences.
Exterior
Late Regency villa-scale farmhouse of 2 storeys plus attic with a lower ground-level to the rear, producing a raised ground floor above basement on this side. Of roughcast and whitened rubble construction with original shallow-pitched, hipped roof of small slates and lead flashings; oversailing eaves and plain rendered stacks. Three-bay symmetrical entrance front, the central, entrance bay slightly advanced and with shallow gable; plain bargeboards. Later C19 single-storey porch with flat roof, simple entablature with blind rectangular recesses and 8-pane pointed-arched windows; Y-tracery glazing bars. Within is a wooden doorcase with panelled pilasters and scrolled consoles supporting a dentilated frieze; modern glazed door with original decorative rectangular overlight. C19 16-pane unhorned sashes with chamfered reveals and moulded and returned Tudor-style labels to both floors, with simple sill courses returned onto the sides. In the gable apex, above the porch, is a further squat 8-pane sliding sash with label as before. The L side (SW) has original 12-pane sashes to the ground floor and modern windows to the first; the R (NE) side has an original and a modern window to each floor.
The rear has a large central projecting bay with gable and plain bargeboards. This has a tall cambered entrance with 5-panel door and rectangular overlight which leads via a long flight of partly rubble-parapetted steps down to the farmyard. Vertical 8-pane sash window to the R with similar above and a 12-pane sash to the L, above the entrance; all have cambered heads. Twelve-pane sashes to R and L bays to both floors, except that to upper L, which has a cambered head and modern glazing; all have projecting stone sills. Boarded modern garage door to basement at L, with a further basement porch, extruded in the angle to the L of the gabled central bay; boarded door.
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of survey.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a second-quarter C19 farmhouse retaining good external character.
Group value with the barn at Henllys.
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