Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn 100m NE of Cae Glas
Llanfrothen, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Croesor, Llanfrothen, Gwynedd, designated on 14 May 1998.
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
- 52.98244, -4.04498
- Cadw reference
- 19839
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 · 119 Snowdon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located approximately 100m NE of Cae Glas, set gable into a hill-slope and with a modern barn adjoining to the NE.
History
3-bay boulder-built barn of late C17 or early C18 date and associated with the nearby Cae Glas.
Exterior
Small rectangular field barn of rubble construction on boulder foundations; old slates to SW roof pitch, corrugated iron to NE, unkneelered rubble gable parapets. Recessed boarded door to downhill gable end and loading bay to uphill gable; further entrance to NE side, with recessed boarded door as before.
Interior
3-bay interior with original collar-and-tie-beam roof trusses and pegged purlins, all with rough scantling.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a complete surviving late C17/early C18 vernacular field barn.
Nearby in the register
- Cae GlasDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn 25m SE 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.