Barn with attached cart shed at Berthymaen is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 2001. Barn.
Barn with attached cart shed at Berthymaen
- WRENN ID
- open-floor-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Flintshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 April 2001
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- SJ 124 807
- Coordinates
- 53.31599, -3.31516
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This building is a rubble-stone barn with an attached cart shed, located at Berthymaen. It dates from the 19th century and is set on a sloping site, featuring a large stepped boulder plinth at the downhill end. The barn has a slate roof with coped gables.
At the front, there is a lintelled winnowing doorway that has been narrowed with brick jambs added to the right side, and it includes a boarded door. Flanking this doorway are three tiers of narrow ventilation strips, most of which are blocked with brick. A small lintelled opening is present at the right end. The left gable end, which is downhill, has a blocked lintelled opening that leads to the loft above the lower cart shed.
The cart shed, also constructed of rubble stone and topped with a slate roof, features two brick segmental-headed doorways with replaced doors, along with boarded loft openings beneath the eaves. There is a machinery store that is lower than the cart shed, which is open-fronted and supported by a central timber post, with added metal gates.
At the rear, the cart shed has two boarded loft openings. The barn includes a segmental-headed doorway leading to the threshing bay, where the jambs are original but the arch is from the 19th century, and it has a replaced boarded door. Above this doorway is an inserted loft opening, and to the right of it is a late 19th-century bearing box, likely added for steam-powered threshing using a portable steam engine. The doorway is flanked by ventilation strips similar to those at the front, which are mostly infilled. There is also a doorway at the left end, which is probably an insertion for a small stable, featuring a brick jamb on the right side and a boarded door. Additionally, a later large shed is attached to the uphill gable end.
The barn has a four-bay queen-post roof.
Local climate
Barn with attached cart shed at Berthymaen sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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