Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cowhouse to South-east of Fridd-isaf
Betws Garmon, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 29 January 1999
- Locality
- Fridd-isaf
- Community
- Betws Garmon
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.05304, -4.12657
- Cadw reference
- 21276
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
Situated up the hill to the south-east of the farmhouse at Fridd-isaf.
History
C18 cowhouse truncated to the west by the construction of the leat (surviving as an earthwork) to the late C19 waterwheel at Fridd-isaf, as a result of which the west gable end was rebuilt; early C20 extension to east gable end.
Exterior
Cowhouse. Roughly coursed rubblestone on boulder plinth, rendered to east gable end; slate roof. Rectangular building set into east-west running slope, truncated to west and with set-back extension under same roof line to east. South wall has stable door to right directly beneath raking dormer with boarded hatch above the eaves; stable door to extension in angle with main structure.
Interior
C18 part has roof structure in 3 full bays with half bay to west as a result of truncation of the building; 3 A-frame trusses of light scantling.
Reason for designation
Included as a mid-C18 cowhouse which, along with other buildings, forms a good farmyard group at Fridd-isaf, representing a good example of a moorland-edge holding.
Nearby in the register
- Barn to South of Fridd-isafAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cowhouse to South of Fridd-isafAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Fridd-isafDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pen-y-GonglDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.