Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn at Cymer Abbey
Llanelltyd, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 20 July 1995
- Locality
- Cymer Abbey
- Community
- Llanelltyd
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.75823, -3.89560
- Cadw reference
- 16164
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 immediately to the E of Cymer Abbey ruins in a farmyard.
History
Of 2 main sections and periods: a 5-bay post-Dissolution barn, perhaps mid or late C16 raised and extended to the S by 3 extra bays c.1800 creating a part-open hay barn. Large, wide stopped-chamfered beams were removed from the barn and i corporated in Ty Fanner, the farmhouse c.1900 (information from Mr. Rowlands, the present owner).
Exterior
Rubble construction with cyclopean blocks to the lower walls; continuous old slate roof. 3 plain entrances with stable doors to the earlier section (to R) and an upper loading bay to the N gable. Catslide addition to the rear with a square unglazed opening and a blocked ventilation slit; flanking boarded doors. The 3 later bays are open to the W with dividing plain rubble piers, though the lower S and E walls are filled in with breeze-blocks to half height; corrugated iron sheeting to upper S gable.
Interior
Plain open interior with collar truss roof of c.1800; bolted collars, pegged principals and rough overlapping purlins.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with other listed items at Cymer Abbey.
Nearby in the register
- Byre at Cymer AbbeyAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cymer AbbeyAbbeyunder 1 mi
- Cymer AbbeyReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Ty FannerDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.