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Field Cowhouse at Tan-y-Rhiw-Newydd
Beddgelert, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 25 November 1998
- Locality
- Beddgelert
- Town
- Porthmadog
- Community
- Beddgelert
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.01648, -4.09792
- Cadw reference
- 20932
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
Set back from the main road on a slight rise immediately to the S of Tan-y-Rhiw Newydd terrace, at the northern extremity of Beddgelert village.
History
Vernacular field cowhouse, probably late C17 or early C18, originally built to house a small number of cows or cattle and typically detached from the other buildings of the farmstead. The farm was part of the Perthi/Dinas Moch lands which belonged to Sir Watkin Williams Wynn until 1803.
Exterior
Vernacular field cowhouse, sited with its gable into a gentle hill-slope, as is customary. Of boulder rubble construction on pronounced boulder foundations; slate roof with crudely-kneelered, uncoped rubble gable parapet to the rear gable. Entrance to the lower gable with large stone lintel; deeply-recessed part-boarded door (upper part open). Former loading doorway to the rear gable, now partly boarded.
Interior
Two-bay interior with original pegged oak tie-beam and collar trusses.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a good, well-preserved example of this characteristic type of regional field cowhouse.
Nearby in the register
- Sygyn BachDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tan-y-MarianDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tan-RalltDomesticunder 1 mi
- IsfrynDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.