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
19/07/2002
Date of Amendment
19/07/2002
Name of Property
Ty Coch with attached agricultural range
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Location
Approximately 2km N of Caerwys town centre on the N side of a minor road between Caerwys and Babell.
History
An C18 or early C19 roadside smallholding, shown on the 1849 Tithe map. Rendering and other external details are late C19.
Exterior
A smallholding comprising dwelling with attached agricultural range. The 2-storey 2-window cottage is of pebble-dashed walls with smooth-rendered quoins and architraves, and slate roof, with external stack to the R and end stack to the L. The central boarded door, formerly in a gabled porch, is now within a half-glazed porch on blockwork dwarf wall. The windows are late C19 4-pane horizontal-sliding sashes in earlier openings, and are segmental-headed in the lower storey.
To the L is the lower agricultural range, probably originally incorporating a barn and granary. It has whitened rubble-stone walls and slate roof. A central doorway has a segmental headed boarded door, to the R of which is a window converted from a doorway and an inserted loft window. To centre and L and three narrow loft vents. The L gable end has a boarded loft door under a wooden lintel, reached up external stone steps with treads renewed in concrete.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved small roadside farmstead, a type once common in Flintshire, retaining C19 character.
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