Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Byre at Cymer Abbey
Llanelltyd, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Cymer Abbey, Llanelltyd, Gwynedd, designated on 20 July 1995.
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
- 52.75798, -3.89560
- Cadw reference
- 16165
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 SE of Cymer Abbey ruins at the southern end of the farmyard and immediately S of the main barn.
Exterior
Later C17 3-bay byre with upper loft. Rubble construction with old, graded slate roof, partly repaired. Entrances to N, E and W sides with ventilation slit above the latter and a small, square opening above the former. Central gabled upper dormer entrance to N side with ruinous rubble stepped access advancing L-R; mid-late C17 ogee stopped-chamfered doorcase (R upright replaced).
Interior
Rough beamed ceiling to ground floor; original roof structure with pegged upper crucks with collars and overlapping purlins.
Reason for designation
A third quarter C17 byre with good upper cruck roof and retaining much of its historic character.
Group value with other listed items at Cymer Abbey.
Nearby in the register
- Barn at Cymer AbbeyAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cymer AbbeyReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Cymer AbbeyAbbeyunder 1 mi
- Former Domestic Range to the S of Ty FannerDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.