Multi-purpose Farm Building, Top y Fron Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 August 2005. Farm building.

Multi-purpose Farm Building, Top y Fron Farm

WRENN ID
vast-hinge-dock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Flintshire
Constituency
Alyn and Deeside MP: Sir Mark Tami (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 August 2005
Type
Farm building
Address
Multi-purpose Farm Building, Top y Fron Farm, Kelsterton, Deeside, Connah's Quay
OS grid reference
SJ 272 698
Coordinates
53.22109, -3.09033
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a long, lofted six-bay multi-purpose farm building at Top y Fron Farm, constructed of brick and topped with a renewed slate roof featuring raised brick copings and kneelers. The cow-house may have originally included doorways with cambered brick heads, but some openings have been altered.

On the left side, there are two metal windows with opening ventilators and concrete lintels; the second window from the left is under a cambered brick head with a second brick arch above it. Slightly left of center, there is a raised opening with a flat brick head that is now blocked with brick. To the right, there is a wide entrance with a sliding door, followed by a pair of narrow doorways with segmental brick heads. A metal window is located at the far right, along with another narrow doorway. The ground floor features ventilation slits, mostly infilled with brick.

The loft has six openings, including boarded hatches at the far left and the third and fourth from the left, while the remaining openings are full-height doorways. There are diamond breather holes beneath the eaves. The south gable has three ventilation slits and an iron tie plate at the apex. The rear and north gable end were not visible at the time of the survey. The interior was also not seen during the survey.

Local climate

Multi-purpose Farm Building, Top y Fron Farm receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% 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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