19862

 

II  

Designated  

15/05/1998  

15/05/1998  

Agricultural Range at Plas Coch  

 

Conwy  

Llannefydd  

 

Plas Coch  

299179  

368444  

 

Located immediately to the NW of Plas Coch, closing a farmyard on the N side.  

Agriculture and Subsistence  

 

C17 barn range with long brick addition, datable through documentary sources to 1779.  

Long 2-storey barn range of 2 periods. The primary section is the 2-bay uphill section (to the L) of the C17; this is of whitened rubble construction with slate roof. Central entrance to farmyard side with pegged and stopped-chamfered oak doorcase and sliding corrugated iron door; flanking this are modern steel-framed windows. The upper floor has a square opening under the eaves to the L, with early pegged frame. The adjoining brick range has a wide depressed-arched cart opening at far L with a square open window above. To the R of this is an external stair of whitened rubble, giving access to an upper entrance with pegged frame. Two modern entrances to the R, the first, larger one, with external sliding door. Three tiers of decorative ventilators, those to the centre the most complex. The lower half of the roof is of corrugated iron.  

 

Listed for its special historic interest as a C17 vernacular barn with imposing late C18 brick addition. Group value with the primary house at Plas Coch.