Plas Uchaf Farmhouse, Ysbyty Ifan, Conwy

Entry Name: Plas Uchaf Farmhouse

Listing Date: 23 June 1967

Last Amended: 8 April 1997

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 138

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300000138

Location: Strikingly located on a hill site overlooking the Afon Caletwr, approximately 1.8km NE of Ysbyty Ifan village; accessed via a farm track leading SE off an unclassified road running SW from Pentrefoela

County: Conwy

Community: Ysbyty Ifan

Locality: Plas Uchaf

Traditional County: Denbighshire

Tagged with: Farmhouse

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History

Large sub-medieval storeyed house of c1560-90, built in unit-planned arrangement with the earlier (second-quarter/mid C16) house to the W. Early C17 and C19 additions, the latter in the form of two storeyed wings to the rear and a storeyed continuation to the E. Substantial later C19 alterations following the farm's purchase by Col. Edward Douglas-Pennant (of Penrhyn) as part of the Tir Ifan and Eidda estate c1856; currently owned by the National Trust.

Exterior

Storeyed house of irregular plan with roughcast rubble walls and C19 slate roofs; red brick gable copings. Small, plain late C19 staged chimneys of render and brick. The house faces N across its farmyard, with a hill-slope to the rear. Asymmetrical main front with late C19 recessed 6-pane sash windows. A small storeyed and gabled wing projects outwards from the centre of the primary range. Extruded in its angle to the R, a single-storey C19 porch; modern part-glazed door. To the L of the projecting wing, an entrance with C20 brick gabled porch; late C19 part-glazed door. Beyond this, to the L, a further, C19 bay, continuously-roofed with the main block; single-storey lean-to to the L. To the rear are lower storeyed ranges, projecting southwards and forming a 'U' with the primary block; plain gables and a projecting end chimney to that to the R, its stack removed. Modern windows.

Interior

High ceiling to former hall with fine mid-Elizabethan moulded and stopped-chamfered main and subsidiary beams; stopped-chamfered joists. Central stack at former service end, implying original lobby-entry plan; contemporary moulded bressummer to large fireplace. To the L a cupboard with former mural stair. Projecting N (farmyard-facing) wing with early C17 stopped-chamfered ceiling beams; C19 range and slate-flagged floor. Plain late C19 stair in E section.

Reasons for Listing

Included for the special architectural interest of its fine C16 hall ceiling and for its group value with the former house and adjoining brewhouse at Plas Uchaf.

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II Former House and adjoining Washhouse at Plas Uchaf
Set into a revetted slope immediately to the NW of Plas Uchaf Farmhouse, and closing the farmyard to the W.
II Pont Caletwr
Spanning the Afon Caletwr at the north-eastern boundary of the community and carrying the road from Pentrefoelas to Ysbyty Ifan.
II Church of St. John
Located on the SE side of the Afon Conwy in the centre of the village; within a rubble-walled churchyard.
II Bryn Conwy
Prominently sited in the centre of the village on the S side of the main street, immediately E of Pont Ysbyty Ifan; now embedded within a later terrace.
II* Pont Ysbyty Ifan
Prominently located in the centre of the village and carrying the main road over the Afon Conwy.
II Cartshed at Pen-y-Bont
Adjacent to Pen-y-Bont farmhouse to the NE and facing a small farmyard to the W.
II Pen-y-Bont Farmhouse
Adjoining the former inn at the W approach of the Pont Ysbyty Ifan, in a prominent river-side location.
II Former Privy to Nos 1 and 2 Mill Street
On the W bank of the river Conwy, at the end of the garden in front of Nos 1-2 Mill Street.

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Plas Uchaf Farmhouse

A Grade II Listed Building in Ysbyty Ifan, Conwy

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