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
9123
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
21/06/1990
Date of Amendment
30/06/1992
Name of Property
L-Plan range of outbuildings at Dolassey Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llangunllo
Town
Locality
Bleddfa
Easting
320465
Northing
268913
Street Side
Location
Situated to the west of Dolassey Farmhouse towards the head of a small valley, 1 km NW of Bleddfa.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Circa 1870-80. Specialised estate-type building for cattle rearing on a large scale. Long and short attached ranges of enclosed cattle stalling with lofts above plus an adjoining granary wing. (Stone plinth of earlier timber building lies further S and formerly completed one side of the fold yard).
Exterior
Two storey, open-fronted cowhouses of coursed irregular rock-faced masonry with mostly blue brick dressings. Slate roofs, corrugated metal to rear pitch, deep verges with scroll brackets. 14 bays to fold yard elevations with full-height partly-boarded openings, one being a slightly wider entry bay with double doors. Ground floor infill is vertical boards over timber rails, loft infill of weather boarding. Impressive, high N elevation where the ground falls away. Elevation to E of granary fronted in stone. Narrow ventilation slits and pitching doors to rear and gable elevations. Door and window openings have cambered heads in chequered brickwork. Corrugated cladding to upper gable end of short returned range on E side of yard; coursed rubble blocks with brick dressings and cambered heads.
Interior
Interior of cowhouses is divided into circa 45 stalls with wooden posts and rails, feeding passage to the rear. Sawn beams and joists to ceilings, unaltered except for E end bays which have breeze block partitions. First floor storage lofts with plain wooden C19 king-post trusses. The two storey wing has bull-pen/loose-boxes below with granary over reached by brick external steps.
Reason for designation
A scarce and well-preserved example of an unusually extensive range of specialised cattle-rearing buildings, dating from a period of remarkable (though short-lived) agricultural expansion in Wales.
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