Two adjoining Ranges of Farm Buildings, with a Horse Gin at Halton Farm, Chirk, Wrexham

Coordinates

Latitude: 52.9499 / 52°56'59"N

Longitude: -3.0341 / 3°2'2"W

OS Eastings: 330614

OS Northings: 339673

OS Grid: SJ306396

Mapcode National: GBR 74.L1HB

Mapcode Global: WH89J.C3DV

Plus Code: 9C4RWXX8+X8

Entry Name: Two adjoining Ranges of Farm Buildings, with a Horse Gin at Halton Farm

Listing Date: 29 July 1998

Last Amended: 29 July 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 20234

Building Class: Agriculture and Subsistence

ID on this website: 300020234

Location: The farm buildings lie between the farmhouse and the lane from the hamlet of Halton to Pont-y-Blew.

County: Wrexham

Town: Wrexham

Community: Chirk (Y Waun)

Community: Chirk

Locality: Halton

Traditional County: Denbighshire

Tagged with: Agricultural structure

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History

The farm buildings were built in 1823 as multi-purpose barns and cow-houses for the newly built Halton Farm. They are now largely cowhouses with feed storage on the upper floors, and a milking parlour.

Exterior

The two ranges are set out in a right angle, the N limb lying parallel to the road, the other extending S towards the house. Built of good quality stone rubble with quoins and ashlar dressings, and now with corrugated sheet roofing probably replacing slate. The northern E-W arm has a tall cartway facing the yard with a segmental stone arch, the keystone dated 1823. It is now blocked. Two high-level pitching doors, and a central dovecote, and a door at the E end. The roadside elevation and gable end has three tiers of regularly placed slit ventilators. At the E end, an octagonal horse gin house, with stone walls and large regular ventilation openings in the enclosing walling, all now blocked and replaced by a wide axial opening for farm machinery. The N-S range is similar, with stable doors and part-glazed vented windows on the ground floor and pitching doors above, and a similar blocked cart opening to the yard. Coped gable ends with kneelers.

Reasons for Listing

Incuded as a fine group of farm buildings, typical of agricultural improvements taking place in the early C19, and part of a substantial farmstead group at Halton Farm.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Dog Kennel and Mounting Block at Halton Farm
The mounting block with kennel are built into the rear garden wall, against the farmyard, at Halton Farm.
II Halton Farmhouse
The farmhouse is in the hamlet of Halton, lying on the S side of the old lane to Pont-y-Blew.
II Halton Former Mission Church
The mission church is located in its own churchyard in the SW quadrant of the cross roads at the centre of the hamlet of Halton.
II Ley Farmhouse
Green Lane leads off a minor road from Halton to Chirk Green, connecting with Colliery Road in Chirk. Ley Farm is aligned on the lane, approximately 120m from the road junction.
II The Forge
The house stands above the river crossing at Pont-y-blew, and above the remains of the forge.
II Remains of Forge at Pont-y-blew
The remains of the forge lie in the front garden of the house called The Forge, approximately 170m from Pont-y-blew bridge.
II The Lodge
The building stands in its own grounds back from the minor road from the B5070 to the village of Halton, at the N end of Chirk.
II Pont-y-blew
The bridge carries the road from Chirk to Glynmorlas across the Afon Ceiriog.

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Two adjoining Ranges of Farm Buildings, with a Horse Gin at Halton Farm

A Grade II Listed Building in Chirk, Wrexham