Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cowhouse at Prysan-fawr
Bodedern, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Prysan-fawr, Bodedern, Isle of Anglesey, designated on 4 March 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 4 March 1998
- Locality
- Prysan-fawr
- Community
- Bodedern
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.28189, -4.48094
- Cadw reference
- 19491
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1883 map "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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 · 93 Holyhead (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 41. Anglesey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located a short distance to the NE of the main farm group of Prysan-fawr.
History
Probably C18 cowhouse and haystore, re-roofed in the mid-late C19.
Exterior
A 3 bay cowhouse with opposed central doors, and a door to one side of the gable wall. Rubble walls, roof covering of small slates with rubble stone copings. Segmental rubble stone arches with dripstones to doors. Vertical ventilation slit to left (E) side of N door, formerly with a second slit to the right (W).
Interior
Three bay roof with collared trusses of sawn timber.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved C18 vernacular cowhouse, which forms part of a complete farmstead group with Prysan-fawr.
Nearby in the register
- Stable, barn and cowhouse at Prysan-fawrAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Boiling house and pigsty at Prysan-fawrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Prysan-fawrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bodedern Early Christian CemeteryCemeteryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.