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
24669
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/01/2001
Date of Amendment
31/01/2001
Name of Property
Cart house, smithy and pigsties at Plas Coch
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Ysceifiog
Town
Holywell
Locality
Pen Ucha'r Plwyf
Easting
317409
Northing
372411
Street Side
Location
Plas Coch is 2.4km ENE of Ysceifiog church and reached by private drive on the E side of B5121. The cart house is SW of the house.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Probably built c1879 and contemporary with the adjacent stable and pigeon house.
Exterior
The cart house and smithy has rubble stone walls with bullnose brick dressings and sawtooth eaves, and slate roof. The smithy is R of centre and has a single fixed window and doorway with boarded door, both under segmental heads. To its L are 2 wide segmental-headed bays with central brick pier, while R of the smithy are wide double boarded doors under a cambered head. Set back on the L side are 2 rubble-stone pigsties with slate roof hipped to the L and small ledges for nesting pigeons above the doorways, which have segmental heads. In front are walled pens with plain copings, and boarded gates with monolithic gate posts. The R end wall of the cart house has a horizontal sash window, R of which is a water tank adapted from an iron boiler tube. A farmyard wall is continuous with the rear angle.
Set back at the L end of the pigsties is a long stable range of rubble stone which has a corrugated metal roof with rooflights. At its R end are 2 C20 added brick pigsties next to the earlier sties.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved late C19 cart house and smithy, and for group value with the adjacent stable and pigeon house.
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