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.
Date of Designation
18/02/1999
Date of Amendment
12/03/2003
Name of Property
Old Barn at Rhyd Farm
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Location
At right angles to long range of outbuildings at Rhyd farm; opposite entrance to farm from lane.
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
History
Probably C17, the barn appears to have been originally thatched.
Exterior
A barn in quasi-rubble local limestone with slate roof; the masonry at each gable forms an uncoped upstand. The front slope (towards the farmyard) has large C19 slates, the rear slope has retained its small C18 slates.
Opposed great doorways, that at front having been partly filled in brickwork and that at rear having been partly filled in concrete blockwork. Doors above and below at front and at rear. Many ventilation slits at front and rear and in S gable. At the N end the barn abuts extensive modern sheds.
Reason for designation
Included as a fine C17 barn and for group value with Rhyd Farmhouse.
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