Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Drystone-walled Field System at Tan-y-braich
Betws Garmon, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 29 January 1999
- Locality
- Tan-y-braich
- Community
- Betws Garmon
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.09809, -4.21413
- Cadw reference
- 21270
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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 in a remote moorland location enclosing smallholder's cottage and attached cowhouse.
History
Associated with the smallholder's cottage, its attached cowhouse and outbuildings at Tan-y-braich, is a remarkably regular small field system. The cottage and its associated field system forms a clear example of an encroachment on the moorland wastes typical of this area at the end of the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. The dry-stone walls that enclose the fields are probably substantially of this period.
Exterior
Stone walls enclosing a small field-system. Dry-stone rubble walls of between approximately 1.2m and 2m in height enclose a regular field system comprising 3 small rectangular fields to the north-west and 3 to the south-east, bisected by a straight wall-lined track leading north-eastwards from the smallholder's cottage to the open moorland. To the south-west of the cottage is a single larger and more irregularly shaped field which also forms part of the holding.
Reason for designation
Included for historic interest as an exceptionally well-preserved series of field walls which define an exceptionally well-preserved and unusually regular field system. The cottage and its associated field system forms a clear example of an encroachment on the moorland wastes typical of this area at the end of the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. The dry-stone walls that enclose the fields are probably substantially of this period.
Part of a group with the cottage and attached cow-house and outbuildings at Tan-y-braich.
Nearby in the register
- Tan-y-braichDomesticunder 1 mi
- Glan GorsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tyn LlwynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Hut Circle Settlement and Field System South-East of ErwEnclosed hut circle settlementunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.