Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
23450
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/05/2000
Date of Amendment
24/05/2000
Name of Property
Threshing Barn at Home Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llandygai
Town
Locality
Penrhyn Park
Easting
259467
Northing
371366
Street Side
Location
Home Farm is situated on the east side of the A 5122 between Llandygai and Bangor on the western side of Penrhyn Park directly opposite a large industrial estate; the boundary wall of the park screens the farm from the road.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Home Farm was established, as the name implies, as the home farm to the Penrhyn Estate soon after Edward Gordon Douglas-Pennant succeeded to the estate in 1840. Douglas-Pennant was a noted agricultural improver and first gave notice to his tenants of his intention to improve the estate through his agent, James Wyatt's address "To the Farming Tenantry of the Penrhyn Estate", printed in 1843. At Home Farm agent and owner combined to create a new farm based on the latest principles of agricultural efficiency.
Exterior
Roughly coursed rubblestone; slate roof. Roughly central threshing entrance on north with 8 tall ventilation slits to right and to left alternating doors and louvre-ventilated windows (4 in total) on ground floor with boarded door to loft above. South side is mainly obscured by attached 2-storey building with chimney; substantial stone lean-to attached to west gable end.
Interior
Loft to eastern end. King-post roof and slate slab floor.
Reason for designation
Included as an integral part of the very fine complex of farmbuildings at Home Farm, one of the best-preserved, largest and earliest of the many 'model' farms on the Penrhyn Estate.
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