Agricultural Complex at Garn is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 June 2000. Agricultural complex.

Agricultural Complex at Garn

WRENN ID
sombre-pewter-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 June 2000
Type
Agricultural complex
Address
Agricultural Complex at Garn, Henllan
OS grid reference
SJ 024 687
Coordinates
53.20651, -3.46186
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is an agricultural complex comprising two long barns arranged at right angles to one another, with a former carthouse block adjoining at the north corner, forming a Z-shaped layout. The buildings are primarily constructed of limestone rubble with slated roofs, though the main southwest range has a more modern corrugated metal roof. The southwest range's southeast gable features a kneelered rubble parapet. This range has irregular openings, including a boarded entrance and a vertically-slatted window. Further windows are present, with two featuring modern glazing and one slatted. The upper floor has five windows, three and five from the left having segmental arches. A long flight of stone steps leads to the upper loft entrance, which breaks the eaves; above this entrance is a gabled dormer with plain bargeboards.

The adjoining range has a large central barn entrance flanked by a tall, four-pane sash window from the late 19th century and a vent slit with a window beyond, the latter with six-pane fixed modern glazing. To the right of the large entrance is a two-part, eight-pane 19th-century window, with a twelve-pane sash above the lower boarded section. A tall boarded loading door is followed by a six-pane window. A later addition forms the end bay, recessed slightly but continuously roofed with the main range; this section has a boarded door, a three-part window, and a 19th-century twelve-pane sash above. A boarded loft door is located in the gable end, accessible via a surrounding stone stair with a metal rail; a projecting chimney breast is also present on the gable end. A decorative wrought iron weather vane sits atop the roof, with the main section bearing the date 1746 and a restoration date of 1982 on the rear section. Two large lean-to cart bays and a large 20th-century lean-to adjoin the rear of this range.

The carthouse block, adjoining at the north corner, has a flight of stone steps leading to a boarded loft door on its southeast gable. The northeast side has two reduced cart bays with exposed timber lintels and boarded doors, set within brick and rubble infill. A window with vertical slatting and a three-pane upper section is to the right, followed by a boarded door and a matching window.

Inside the primary barn (southwest range), the interior has a four-bay layout with low pegged collar trusses, likely dating to the 1740s. The second range exhibits a five-bay roof with reused, pegged tie-beam trusses, featuring broad curved braces and a queen post truss at the southwest end.

Local climate

Agricultural Complex at Garn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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