87815

 

II  

Designated  

17/12/2020  

 

Cow house at Pen-y-Graig Farm  

 

Denbighshire  

Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd  

Ruthin  

Pentre-celyn  

313136  

352658  

 

On the SW side of the farmhouse.  

Agriculture and Subsistence  

Victorian  

C19 cow house built in the second half of the C19 and first shown on the 1880 OS map. A parallel range was added to the rear post 1945. Originally the cow house was longer, but the S end was taken down, probably in the late C20.  

A lofted cow house built of locally quarried limestone rubble under a slate roof, and openings under timber lintels. Facing the yard to the E there are 3 full-height doors, between which are metal-framed windows inserted into original openings. In the L (S) gable end is a stub wall of the section of the building taken down, and in the gable is a metal-framed window in an original opening. The similar loft window in the N gable end is in a brick surround. The parallel range at the rear is brick with concrete dressings, under a roof of corrugated asbestos-cement sheets. In the W wall are 3 full-height doorways with split boarded doors. In the S gable end is a boarded door and both gable ends have a loft window.  

In the original range is a single truss with sawn tie beam with raking struts.  

Listed as a C19 farm building retaining early character, and for group value with the farmhouse and other associated listed items, contributing to the significant development of the farmstead in the C19.