Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Byre at right-angles to road at Old Rectory.
Llanddoged and Maenan, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 29 April 1994
- Locality
- Llanddoged
- Community
- Llanddoged and Maenan
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.15361, -3.79258
- Cadw reference
- 14542
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated uphill from the Old Rectory beside the lane that climbs the hill from Llanrwst to Llanddoged. This building is aligned gable end on to the lane and is set back at right angles to former stable and cartshed.
History
Late Medieval cruck-framed barn or byre, perhaps of late C15 date and presumably always associated with the former cruck-framed domestic building at right-angles with it. The building was encased in limewashed rubble at some point in the C17 or C18; it is described as in poor repair and thatched in a document c1750. Both buildings underwent alterations in the 1860s when they were converted into a cartshed/stables and a byre respectively. Dates of 1861 and 1868, together with the initials TD (for Thomas Davies) are seen carved into lintels on both buildings; Thomas Davies was rector of Llanddoged from 1829 and appears to have built Larke Stoke, the present Old Rectory.
Exterior
Whitened rubble building with boulder foundations and slate roof; raised eaves, deep verges with plain bargeboards. Wide entrance with modern boarded doors and curved, exposed lintel; further, smaller entrance to R with lintel and door as before. Ruined pigsty against south-east gable, this with loft opening. C19 stone-built three-seater privy in angle between the two ranges.
Interior
Internally there is one surviving complete cruck truss to right (north-west) end but the remaining trusses to left are of late C17 or early C18 pegged tie-beam type. The timbers are of much thinner scantling than those in the other range (stable and cartshed). The width of the right-hand bay, with the cruck truss unusually close to the gable end, suggests that the original timber-framed building continued further to north-west and was perhaps contiguous with the former stable and cartshed. Cobbled floor to cowshed at left end and flagged floor to middle. Otherwise the interior has been converted for storage use.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Former Stable and Cartshed at Old Rectory.
Nearby in the register
- Former Stable and Cartshed facing road at Old Rectory.Agriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- T'yn LlanDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of St DdogedReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Capel SoarReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.