U-Shaped Agricultural Range to the west of Fron Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 December 1994. Agricultural range.
U-Shaped Agricultural Range to the west of Fron Hall
- WRENN ID
- woven-transept-azure
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Flintshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1994
- Type
- Agricultural range
- OS grid reference
- SJ 222 621
- Coordinates
- 53.15039, -3.16417
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a large U-shaped symmetrical agricultural range built in 1762, located to the west of Fron Hall. It features a central barn flanked by stables, constructed of rubble with freestone dressings beneath a medium-pitched slate roof that has moulded eaves cornices. The flanking ranges have shaped, moulded kneelers and coped gables.
The central barn has a large entrance with a segmental arched head, rusticated voussoirs, and a central keystone inscribed with "R W 1762." The upper half of the entrance has boarded doors, and there are flanking ventilation slits designed in a sham medieval military style. These slits consist of a central lozenge shape flanked by large cross-loops with trefoil heads, round bases, and crescent-shaped sides. Above these, there is a horizontal dumb-bell-type sham gun-loop.
The gabled wings feature pointed-arched window openings on the ground floors, with voussoirs similar to those of the entrance (the one on the right has been lowered). There are segmental-arched windows above these openings. On the inner face of the left (southwest) wing, there is a cambered entrance to the left, with voussoirs as previously described, along with another door and window to the right, topped by an open oculus. The doors are recessed and boarded.
The right (northeast) wing has a sequence of door, window, door, door, with the central window and door being modern. There is a brick stack on the left side. The left wing still contains contemporary wooden loose boxes.
Local climate
U-Shaped Agricultural Range to the west of Fron Hall receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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