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
24676
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/10/1952
Date of Amendment
31/01/2001
Name of Property
Barn at Gellilyfdy
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Ysceifiog
Town
Locality
Babell
Easting
314636
Northing
373887
Street Side
Location
Approximately 100m SE of the farmhouse.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Dated 1586 and built by William Jones, father of the scholar John Jones. Its completion was celebrated by the poet Y Gwisgl Gwyn.
Exterior
A large barn of coursed rubble stone on boulder footings, and slate roof (part replaced with galvanised sheets). On the E side a central threshing bay has a doorway under a C19 dressed stone lintel and jambs partly renewed in brick. To its R are 2 tiers of 3 narrow vents. To the L of the doorway a similar arrangement of vents is interrupted in the lower tier by an inserted doorway widened from an C19 doorway under brick segmental head, L of which is a metal-framed window with brick surround and wooden lintel, with a single vent surviving at the L end. The N gable end has stepped vents in 4 tiers placed 4:3:2:1, interrupted in the lower tier by an added brick lean-to on the L side leaving only 2 vents visible. The W side facing the house is similar to the E. Its threshing bay has a C19 stone lintel and dressed stone jambs to the L side, and retains double boarded doors. To the L are 2 tiers of 3 vents, while on the R side is an added blockwork lean-to. The S gable end is similar to the N side with its stepped tiers of vents, except the lower tier is now replaced mid C20 by an inserted door to the L and 2 windows, of which the R-hand was originally a doorway.
Interior
The roof is 5 bays with queen posts and raking struts. One of the tie beams has a carved date inscription and the initials WJ.
Reason for designation
Listed grade II* as an exceptionally early and well-preserved corn barn.
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
Export