Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cefniwrch
Buan, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Boduan, Pwllheli, Buan, Gwynedd, designated on 15 July 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 15 July 1998
- Locality
- Boduan
- Town
- Pwllheli
- Community
- Buan
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.90107, -4.49416
- Cadw reference
- 20126
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 1830 map "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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 · 134 Pwllheli (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated down drive on E side of lane running S from A497, about 1.2 km S of Boduan church.
History
Later C18 or earlier C19 small holding of crog-lofft and agricultural buildings, marked on OS Drawings for 1816-19 and also recorded on the 1840 Tithe Map for Boduan parish as part of the Newborough Estate.
Exterior
Small single-story croglofft cottage with attached agricultural range. Rubble stone, whitewashed to cottage, with roof of small graduated slates. Cottage has rendered end stacks, large and square stack to left. Small loft-light in roofslope to right. Double-fronted with stable-door to right of centre and 6-pane sash each side. Slab lintels. Rear C20 lean-to and lean-to on left end wall. Linear range of single-storey outbuildings downhill to right, 4 openings with C20 doors or windows.
Low stone walls attached to house, enclosing narrow front garden.
Reason for designation
Included as a well preserved example of a traditional small farmstead with croglofft cottage.
Nearby in the register
- BryniauDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of St BuanReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Automobile Association Telephone Call BoxCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Out-buildings at Home Farm, Plas BoduanAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.