Full Report for Listed Buildings


Summary Description of a Listed Buildings


Reference Number
15241
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
12/12/1994  
Date of Amendment
12/12/1994  
Name of Property
Former Farmhouse at Fron Farm (excluding the modern house attached to N)  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Flintshire  
Community
Nercwys  
Town
 
Locality
Fron  
Easting
322025  
Northing
361202  
Street Side
 
Location
Located to NW of Nercwys village, off a narrow lane off the Maeshafn- Mold road, set back within its own farmyard and adjacent to, and at an angle with the present farmhouse.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
An L-shaped sub-medieval farmhouse of 2 main phases with early C19 alterations and additions, currently un-used.  

Exterior
Main farmhouse range (orientated E-W): This is the earliest section, dating from the late C16/early C17, and was originally asingle-storey rubble-built 3-unit hall house, partly built on exposed rock. Massive off-centre stack, now reduced. The whole was raised in the early C19. Medium-pitched slate roof with added rubble projecting end-chimney to the W gable end, with brick-built upper section. Plain entrance to the L with boarded door. Early C20 3-light fixed windowto central (hall) section with timber lintel and brick cill. A similar 2-light window above. Entrance to the R via an early C20 brick porch. Plain boarded doors. Similar 3-pane window to the rear. Stopped-chamfered ceiling beams to interior of R section (former parlour) and, in the hall, a wide inglenook, stopped and chamfered, though later disturbed and given a cambered head. Added to this range to the E (parlour end) and forming the W arm of an L with it the surviving ground floor section of a mid-late C17 parlour wing, originally storeyed and gabled. This was reduced within the last 20 years, and apparently had a triple-light arched- headed mullioned window to the upper S gable (information from the owner). Early C19 2-window facade with near-flush central entrance. Cambered head and late C19 door, now part-glazed. Near-flush flanking windows with cambered heads of cross-window type. In the interior of the right-hand room, a chamfered beam with moulded tongue-like stops. Adjacent to the main block and to the W, linked by a C19 Ty Bach, an early C19 2-storey gabled cow byre with loft above. Rubble and slate construction with rubble parapetted gables. External stone- stepped access to the upper W gable. 3 symmetrically-placed entrances with flat stone lintels and plain stable doors. 2 tiers of ventilation slits, mostly blocked, with an upper, unglazed window opening above. Rear outshut to R.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed as a good early example of a sub-medieval house, still identifiable despite subsequent remodelling and reduction.  

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