25118

 

II  

Designated  

30/04/2001  

30/04/2001  

Barn with attached cart shed at Berthymaen  

 

Flintshire  

Llanasa  

 

Trelogan  

312482  

380700  

 

On the SW side of the house.  

Agriculture and Subsistence  

 

An C18 barn, shown on the 1839 Tithe map, to which a cart shed and machinery store were added in the third quarter of the C19 and are shown on the 1871 Ordnance Survey.  

A rubble-stone barn with slate roof behind coped gables, set on a sloping site with large stepped boulder plinth to the downhill end. Facing the yard is a lintelled winnowing doorway, narrowed with brick jambs added to the R side, and with a boarded door. The doorway is flanked by 3 tiers of narrow ventilation strips, mostly blocked with brick. A small lintelled opening is at the R end. The L, downhill, gable end has a blocked lintelled opening to its loft above the lower cart shed. The cart shed, also of rubble stone with slate roof, has 2 brick segmental-headed doorways with replaced doors, and boarded loft openings beneath the eaves. The machinery store is lower again and is open-fronted with a central timber post and added metal gates. To the rear, the cart shed has 2 boarded loft openings. The barn has a segmental-headed doorway to the threshing bay, of which the jambs are original but the arch is C19, with replaced boarded door. Above it is an inserted loft opening, to the R of which is a late C19 bearing box probably inserted to allow steam-powered threshing using a portable steam engine. The doorway is flanked by ventilation strips, similar to the front and mostly infilled. A doorway at the L, uphill, end is probably inserted for a small stable, and has a brick jamb on the R side and a boarded door. A later large shed is attached to the uphill gable end.  

The barn has a 4-bay queen-post roof.  

Listed as a well-preserved C18 barn and for its contribution to the historic character of the farm.