25126

 

II  

Designated  

30/04/2001  

30/04/2001  

Outbuilding with pigsties W of Home Farm  

 

Flintshire  

Llanasa  

 

Talacre  

310149  

383142  

 

On the W side of Home Farm.  

Agriculture and Subsistence  

 

Talacre Abbey was built 1824-9 by Thomas Jones, architect, for Sir Edward Mostyn, on the site of an earlier house. Jones also designed a number of estate buildings, including the Home Farm. The building, possibly a poultry house, was built in the third quarter of the C19 and is shown with a range of pigsties on its E side on the 1871 Ordnance Survey. Further pigsties were added to the S gable end and the E side of the building was enclosed by a walled yard in the final quarter of the C19.  

Of rubble stone with slate roof and central slatted pyramidal vent. The front has small vent strips below the eaves. Openings have stone wedge lintels. On the L side is a wood-barred opening, and a doorway to the R of centre. On the R side is a long row of former pigsties (overgrown at the time of inspection) with a snecked stone front wall that incorporates a gateway opening to a path to the main doorway. The wall defines a yard on the E side of the building and continues to former pigsties (overgrown at the time of inspection) built against he S gable end. The rear of the building has 2 lintelled openings similar to the front and a row of vents below the eaves.  

 

Listed as a C19 estate building retaining original character, as an integral component of Home Farm and one of the extensive listed outbuildings associated with Talacre Abbey.