Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
30/08/2002
Date of Amendment
30/08/2002
Name of Property
Cow house at Gelli Bach
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Location
On the N side of the house.
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
History
A Penbedw Estate farm building dated 1895, and represents one of several farmsteads on the estate improved by Henry Buddicom after he inherited Penbedw in 1893. Gelli Bach is a C19 roadside smallholding shown on the 1871 Ordnance Survey, when it had an agricultural range on the site of the present cow house. The present cow house is shown on the 1899 second edition.
Exterior
A rubble-stone cow house with bullnose brick dressings and brick quoins, and slate roof with an inserted small skylight. Facing the yard are 3 segmental-headed doorways with boarded doors. A small blockwork shed is added to the R end. The R gable end has, to the R of the added shed, a segmental-headed metal-framed window incorporating sliding vents, above which is a tablet with 'H&S B 1895' in raised letters and numerals. The rear elevation has a similar metal-framed window to the L and a boarded door to the R. A blockwork projection is built against the L gable end.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved cow house retaining estate character, and forming a complete small farmstead with the house.
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