Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Walls to Carreg Fawr
Aberdaron, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 26 June 1998
- Locality
- Yr Enlli / Bardsey Island
- Community
- Aberdaron
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.76229, -4.78991
- Cadw reference
- 20061
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Garden walls behind and in front of Carreg Fawr.
History
Garden walls to Carreg Fawr, single farmhouse of the 1870s, built for the 3rd Baron Newborough as part of the general rebuilding of the island farms.
Exterior
Garden walls enclosing small front garden and narrow rear court, rubble stone with squared stone coping.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Carreg Fawr, and part of a series of walled enclosures which is a characteristic feature of the island landscape.
Nearby in the register
- Carreg FawrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Walled Outbuildings to Carreg FawrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Carreg BachDomesticunder 1 mi
- Walls to Ty Bach / Ty NesafDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.