Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn 25m SE of Cae Glas
Llanfrothen, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 14 May 1998
- Locality
- Croesor
- Community
- Llanfrothen
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.98183, -4.04594
- Cadw reference
- 19838
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
Immediately to the SE of Cae Glas.
History
3-bay boulder-built barn, probably late C17, but either incorporating or re-using 2 pairs of earlier (probably late or sub-medieval) full crucks. These are heavily smoke-blackened, implying an open-hearth context and may therefore relate to the domestic predecessor of the present C16 Cae Glas. This, either reduced by one or two bays, or else dismantled and selectively rebuilt, was encased in stone in the later period and converted to agricultural use.
Exterior
Small rectangular gabled barn; of rubble construction on part-boulder and part-rock foundations. Slate roof with tiled ridge and unkneelered rubble gable parapets; modern roof-lights. Off-centre entrance (to R) with boarded half door with small plain-glazed window to R. Further entrance to L with recessed C19 door and later rubble buttress to R; plain-glazed loading bay to R (N) gable.
Interior
3-bay interior with 2 pairs of full crucks with pronounced smoke blackening; pegged collar to L truss, collar removed to R. Modern purlins and rafters.
Reason for designation
Included for the special interest of its origins as a late or sub-medieval full-cruck building.
Group value with Cae Glas.
Nearby in the register
- Cae GlasDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn 100m NE of Cae GlasAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Unenclosed Hut Circle Settlement East of Garth-y-FoelUnenclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
- Boulder-built Boundary Walls above the Upper Drive at ParcGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.