Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lower Barn at Cefndeuddwr
Ganllwyd, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Cefndeuddwr, Ganllwyd, Gwynedd, designated on 13 February 1994.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 13 February 1994
- Locality
- Cefndeuddwr
- Community
- Ganllwyd
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.81725, -3.88653
- Cadw reference
- 15159
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "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).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 135 Harlech (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located immediately to the N of a farm track, 60m NW ofCefndeuddwr farmhouse; set into a rise to the E.
History
Dated 1727;
Exterior
rubble barn with rubble gable parapet to W and set on a rubble plinth. Medium-pitched slate roof. Entrance to W gable end with stone lintel bearing inscribed date and initials MN (apparently for Mary Nanney); modern stable door. Ventilation slit above, and further slit to N side. Loading bay to E gable apex with projecting slatestone lintel; C19 pegged doorcase and boarded door. 3 bay interior with crude pegged collar trusses.
Reason for designation
Listed as a scarce example of an early C18 dated vernacular barn.
Group value with other listed items at Cefndeuddwr.
Nearby in the register
- Upper Barn at CefndeuddwrAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Byre (former Dower House) at CefndeuddwrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cefndeuddwr FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Hermon or Dolfwynog Copper/Gold Bog KilnKilnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.