Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
18781
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
11/08/1997
Date of Amendment
11/08/1997
Name of Property
Barn at Rhyd-y-Creuau
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Bro Garmon
Town
Locality
A470
Easting
280273
Northing
357200
Street Side
W
Location
Located 100m NW of the farmhouse, at the northern end of the farmyard; behind a modern barn complex.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Large and imposing vernacular barn, dated 1788.
Exterior
Rubble construction on a rubble plinth with corrugated asbestos roof; the former rubble gable parapets have been removed. Wide central entrances to both long sides, with segmental heads and projecting archrings; dressed slatestone voussoirs and quoins. Square open loading bays to far L and R on N face; blocked ventilation slits to sides and gable ends.
Interior
7-bay interior with original pegged collar trusses and, flanking the central (threshing floor) bay, tie-beam trusses with raking struts. Of these, that to the E is inscribed: 'I.G. 1788'.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special historic interest as a fine example of a dated late C18 vernacular barn.
Group value with the Hay Barn at Rhyd-y-Creuau.
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