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Latitude: 53.195 / 53°11'42"N
Longitude: -3.6466 / 3°38'47"W
OS Eastings: 290092
OS Northings: 367705
OS Grid: SH900677
Mapcode National: GBR 6B.2NPM
Mapcode Global: WH65L.YYPH
Plus Code: 9C5R59W3+29
Entry Name: C-shaped Agricultural Range at Melai
Listing Date: 30 January 1968
Last Amended: 22 July 1998
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 193
Building Class: Agriculture and Subsistence
ID on this website: 300000193
Location: Located to the W of the main farm group at Melai, on the W side of the Nant Melai.
County: Conwy
Community: Llanfair Talhaiarn (Llanfair Talhaearn)
Community: Llanfair Talhaiarn
Locality: Melai
Traditional County: Denbighshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Early C19 carthouse with adjoining barn, built as part of a large farm group, apparently c1804 to serve Melai. This was an important seat in the early medieval period and was the ancestral home of the Wynnes of Melai and Maenan Abbey; from this house descended the Wynnes of Garthewin and the Lords Newborough of Rug. Melai produced High Sheriffs for Denbighshire in 1577, 1586, 1614, 1637 and finally 1712; thereafter Melai appears to have been tenanted.
C-shaped, single-storey agricultural range of local rubble construction with slated roofs and tiled ridges. The range consists of a 4-bay gabled carthouse block to the N and a barn to the S, with a low connecting cart-bay block linking the two to the W. The carthouse block has 4 segmentally-arched openings to its N face, with rough-dressed voussoirs. The lower adjoining range has 4 plain openings and a modern corrugated iron pentise lean-to in front. The barn section, although adjacent, is technically separated from the two former ranges, though is linked to them by the pentise. It has a large, full-height entrance to its S side, with modern boarded door; to the L is a tall ventilation slit and on the W gable end is a loading bay.
The interior was not inspected at the time of survey.
Listed for its special historic and architectural interest as part of a particularly fine early C19 agricultural group.
Group value with other listed items at Melai.
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