Cart house, smithy and pigsties at Plas Coch is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 2001. Agricultural building.

Cart house, smithy and pigsties at Plas Coch

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Flintshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 January 2001
Type
Agricultural building
Address
Cart house, smithy and pigsties at Plas Coch, Pen Ucha'R Plwyf, Holywell, Ysceifiog
OS grid reference
SJ 174 724
Coordinates
53.24229, -3.23906
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The cart house, smithy, and pigsties at Plas Coch are 19th-century structures featuring rubble stone walls with bullnose brick dressings and sawtooth eaves, topped with a slate roof. The smithy is located to the right of center and includes a single fixed window and a doorway with a boarded door, both set under segmental arches. To the left of the smithy are two wide segmental-headed bays separated by a central brick pier. To the right of the smithy, there are wide double boarded doors beneath a cambered arch.

Set back on the left side are two rubble-stone pigsties with a hipped slate roof, which includes small ledges for nesting pigeons above the doorways, also featuring segmental heads. In front of the pigsties are walled pens with plain copings and boarded gates supported by monolithic gate posts. The right end wall of the cart house has a horizontal sash window, and to its right is a water tank adapted from an iron boiler tube. A farmyard wall extends continuously from the rear angle of the building.

At the left end of the pigsties, there is a long stable range constructed of rubble stone, covered with a corrugated metal roof that includes rooflights. At the right end of this stable range are two 20th-century brick pigsties added next to the earlier structures. The property has not been inspected.

Local climate

Cart house, smithy and pigsties at Plas Coch 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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