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
85256
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/08/2005
Date of Amendment
26/08/2005
Name of Property
Farm Buildings at Cheshire Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Connah's Quay
Town
Deeside
Locality
Kelsterton
Easting
326739
Northing
370073
Street Side
E
Location
Located to the N of the farmhouse.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Two ranges at right angles, joined at one corner. The range facing S is a granary, whilst that facing E into the farmyard is stables. The ranges are shown in their current form on the Ordnance survey of 1870; a single range parallel with the house is shown on the 1839 Tithe map, possibly relating to some masonry to the rear of the granary.
Exterior
The 2-bay granary is of brick on a high rubble stone base under a roof of exceptionally large graded slates. Raised flat stone copings to gables, saw-tooth dentilled eaves to front and rear. The granary has a tall raised doorway offset slightly L of centre containing a boarded door. To R and also at loft level is an inserted 2-light metal window. E gable end has openings to ground floor within the stone section: a planked door to R and metal window to L. Rear elevation has a boarded loft hatch to R, and incorporates the remains of a stone gable end of a range now gone. W end, partly visible, has a wide shallow round-arched opening towards base, probably relating to an external fireplace.
The stable block at right angles is a large lofted range of random stone and brick under a corrugated asbestos roof. The front (E) elevation is of brick and contains 4 large stables, the doorways with cambered brick heads and split doors. Between the doorways are metal windows with opening ventilators, under timber lintels. The full-height loft has 4 round-arched openings, not aligned with the doorways below, the double loft hatch doors partly surviving. Three decorative ventilation strips between the loft hatches, not symmetrically arranged. Rear elevation has a single doorway with planked door offset to R of centre, ventilation strips and some patching in brick; S gable has 2 ventilation strips, beneath which is an open-fronted breeze block lean-to with corrugated roof; N gable end not seen.
Interior
Interiors not seen; the stable block is still in use as stables.
Reason for designation
Listed as a fine pair of C19 farm ranges retaining their architectural character and detail. Group value with farmhouse.
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