23451

 

II  

Designated  

24/05/2000  

24/05/2000  

Engine House attached to south side of threshing barn at Home Farm  

 

Gwynedd  

Llandygai  

 

Penrhyn Park  

259429  

371372  

 

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.  

Agriculture and Subsistence  

 

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.  

Roughly coursed rubblestone; slate roof. 3 sash windows on first floor with boarded door to right. Ground floor has segmental-headed doorway and 6-paned sash to right of projecting single-storey gabled range with segmental-headed opening to front and boarded door in right return. Substantial circular red brick chimney on massive base attached to west gable end of main building.  

Full-length loft with king-post roof; slate slab floor.  

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.