Cart House, Granary and Pigeon Loft at Shifna-hyr Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 2002. Cart house, granary, pigeon loft.

Cart House, Granary and Pigeon Loft at Shifna-hyr Farm

WRENN ID
tenth-bailey-onyx
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Flintshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 January 2002
Type
Cart house, granary, pigeon loft
Address
Cart House, Granary and Pigeon Loft at Shifna-hyr Farm, Gwysaney, Holywell, Halkyn
OS grid reference
SJ 220 668
Coordinates
53.19256, -3.16755
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Cart House, Granary, and Pigeon Loft at Shifna-hyr Farm is a 19th-century structure built from rubble stone, featuring rock-faced dressings and quoins, topped with a slate roof. The front of the building has two wide basket arches; the left-hand arch still has one of its original double boarded doors. There are two boarded loft openings above. The right gable end includes two similar loft openings, with the left one originally serving as a doorway, above a brick lean-to that is built over a stone wall connected to the cart shed.

On the left gable end, where the ground level is higher, there is a boarded loft granary door accessed by stone steps. A continuous rear outshut, which houses a pigeon loft, has a boarded door reached by stone steps to the left of the granary doorway, while further left is a small opening with a ledge. The rear roof slope retains two small raked openings for pigeons. The rear wall of the outshut features a blocked door on the right and doorways in the center and to the left.

The building has not been inspected.

Local climate

Cart House, Granary and Pigeon Loft at Shifna-hyr Farm 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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