North Range of Farmyard Buildings at Plas Kinmel with the enclosed muck yard and entrance gate pier is a Grade II* listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 August 1997. Farmyard, stable, barn.

North Range of Farmyard Buildings at Plas Kinmel with the enclosed muck yard and entrance gate pier

WRENN ID
open-pewter-bistre
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Conwy
Constituency
Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
5 August 1997
Type
Farmyard, stable, barn
Address
North Range of Farmyard Buildings at Plas Kinmel with the enclosed muck yard and entrance gate pier, Abergele
OS grid reference
SH 980 765
Coordinates
53.27654, -3.53084
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The North Range of Farmyard Buildings at Plas Kinmel, which includes the enclosed muck yard and entrance gate pier, is a notable structure from the 19th century. The farmyard is accessed through a single opening at the northwest corner. The northern range that encloses the farmyard consists of a stable and barn, constructed from rubble limestone and topped with a hipped slate roof. The stable features doors on both sides and two hipped dormer windows in the loft above. At the eastern end, the barn has sliding black painted boarded doors and ventilation slits. The northern side of the range continues with an additional building that opens to the north; this is a long hipped midstrey with two brick stacks that have outsetting heads.

The square muck yard is surrounded by a rubble limestone wall, approximately 1.2 meters high, with flush weathered coping and rounded corners, and it has a gate access on the eastern side. The gate piers and walling extend across the wide western side of the yard, leading to the rear of the house.

The roofs are fully torched and supported by steeply pitched trusses made of iron rod ties, which flatten to a central shoe, with a rod tie at the apex and seating for raking timber struts to the principal rafters. There is a single tier of purlins.

Local climate

North Range of Farmyard Buildings at Plas Kinmel with the enclosed muck yard and entrance gate pier sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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