Agricultural Range at Plas-newydd is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 2001. Cowshed, barn.

Agricultural Range at Plas-newydd

WRENN ID
plain-gargoyle-tarn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 May 2001
Type
Cowshed, barn
Address
Agricultural Range at Plas-newydd, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd
OS grid reference
SJ 138 560
Coordinates
53.0946, -3.28785
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The agricultural range at Plas-newydd is a long cowshed and loft built from uncoursed axe-dressed local limestone, topped with a slate roof, and oriented north to south. At the south end, there is a taller barn primarily constructed of brickwork, which has been added alongside the cowshed. Similarly, at the north end, there is another taller building, a large lofted shed, also added in tandem.

The central lofted cowshed features two hatches above at the front, which faces the old farmyard, along with several ventilation slits. It has three doors and two windows below, with doors that include hatch openings above and additional ventilation slits at the rear. The barn has a stonework gable that abuts the cowshed, but is otherwise built of brick with patterns of ventilation holes on each side. It has high barn doorways at both the front and rear, although the original doors are missing, and it has reduced height doors at the front along with two other doors. The lofted shed includes three latticed ventilation windows on each side and a wide opening in the north gable wall.

Attached to the southwest corner is a single-storey range of four open-fronted livestock sheds, along with a two-storey barn, which has further sheds extending from corner to corner with the latter. The central barn is lofted and consists of seven bays.

Local climate

Agricultural Range at Plas-newydd sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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