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
21485
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/03/1999
Date of Amendment
17/03/1999
Name of Property
Threshing Barn and two Sheds at Glan yr Afon
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Llangernyw
Town
Abergele
Locality
Llangernyw
Easting
287974
Northing
369300
Street Side
Location
The threshing barn and attached sheds stand in a range parallel and opposite to the stables and cart shed, on the SE side of the farmyard at Glan yr Afon, approximately 1.75km NNE of Llangernyw village centre.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Probably built in mid C19.
Exterior
Threshing barn and loft with single storey 2-bay shed attached to SW gable wall and 6-bay shed to NE, all aligned SW-NE. Built of local stone rubble; Welsh slate gabled roofs with clayware ridges; shed to NE has timber ridge ventilators. Corn barn has opposing double boarded doors with timber lintels. To left a stone stairway parallel with and attached to NW elevation, facing yard, gives access to boarded loft door in a gabled brick half-dormer. Ventilation slit next to stairway. SW shed has storey height opening to yard. Door and windows to NE shed have cambered brick arches and stone lintels and sills.
Interior
Threshing barn and sheds have open rafter roofs with king post trusses; remains of line shafting machinery in corn barn.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of mid C19 improved farm buildings which form part of an intact farmstead group.
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