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
21487
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/03/1999
Date of Amendment
17/03/1999
Name of Property
Hendre Ddu
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Llangernyw
Town
Abergele
Locality
Llangernyw
Easting
287715
Northing
366307
Street Side
Location
Hendre Ddu stands to the N of a minor road 20m E of the A548, approximately 1.25km S of Llangernyw village centre.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Probably built earlier in the C19, the farmhouse appears on the 1840 Tithe Map in the ownership of Sandbach of Hafodunos.
Exterior
Large two storey L- plan farmhouse. Built of local stone random rubble with larger rubble quoins. Welsh slate gabled roofs with oversailing eaves and verges with exposed rafters and purlin-ends. Brick gable and ridge stacks with oversailing courses. Symmetrical slate hung front elevation, facing S, has three bays of 8/8 sash windows; first floor windows in gabled half-dormers. Central porch of stone rubble has 18-pane window with stone lintel and sill in gable end and side entrance to E with gothic arch and 8 pane part-glazed door. E elevation has scattered fenestration with 8/8 sash windows, one 24-pane cast iron window and boarded door all with cambered brick arches and stone sills. Rear elevation has one bay of 24-pane cast iron window with cambered brick arches to left. To right, 8/8 sash window with stone lintel and sill to ground floor and 4-pane casement window to first floor. Rear wing has rendered gable wall to N; 3-bays of 8/8 sash windows with cambered brick arches and stone sills in W elevation.
Interior
Interior not accessible for inspection at time of resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included as example of unaltered large early C19 farmhouse, part of an improved farmstead owned by the Hafodunos estate, and group value with coeval farm ranges.
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