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Latitude: 53.3569 / 53°21'24"N
Longitude: -4.559 / 4°33'32"W
OS Eastings: 229794
OS Northings: 387500
OS Grid: SH297875
Mapcode National: GBR HM3T.QH9
Mapcode Global: WH423.YW7D
Plus Code: 9C5Q9C4R+QC
Entry Name: Former smithy and cowhouse range, Borth Wen
Listing Date: 16 February 2001
Last Amended: 16 February 2001
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 24805
Building Class: Agriculture and Subsistence
ID on this website: 300024805
Location: At the N side of the Porth Swtan road, which runs through the former farmyard and directly S and W of the agricultural ranges at Borth Wen, the farmhouse to the S; c1km WSW of the house at Carreglwyd.
County: Isle of Anglesey
Town: Holyhead
Community: Llanfaethlu
Community: Llanfaethlu
Locality: Carreglwyd
Traditional County: Anglesey
Tagged with: Smithy
Late C18 or early C19 farm range, including the farm smithy.
Linear farm range aligned N-S, comprising smithy/boiling house, cowhouse, calfshed, root store and lean-to henhouse. Rubble walls and roofs of small slates; that of the cowhouse range heavily grouted and with an undulating ridge line. From L to R; lean-to henhouse to L gable with cambered brick lintel to door in return; inserted window to rear (E) wall. Root vegetable store with dove holes to gable end; single door to W wall. Calfshed with single door, and cowhouse with door either end (that to the L enlarged slightly, with brick jambs to R), and blocked door to centre. The smithy has a squat gable end chimney with brick capping and stone slab capping. Concrete rendered gable copings. Single door offset to L; window opposite in rear wall. Modern breeze block garage attached to smithy S gable end.
From L to R (N to S); the root vegetable store is of 2-bays. The calfshed to R has a 2-bay roof with sawn and bolted collared trusses; timber hayrack and manger. The cowhouse has a 4-bay roof of hewn collared trusses which have evidence of being used previously. The smithy is of 2-bays; there is an upright bellows to the L of the inglenook fireplace. The bressumer and the stonework above have been replaced using modern materials.
Listed as a characteristic coastal farm range retaining vernacular character including slobbered mortar walls and grouted roof of small slates. The range forms part of the comprehensive farm group at Borth Wen, and the smithy is of particular interest for retaining its bellows.
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