Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cowhouse Range at Plas-gwyn
Llannor, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Y Ffor, Pwllheli, Llannor, Gwynedd, designated on 8 February 1999.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 8 February 1999
- Locality
- Y Ffor
- Town
- Pwllheli
- Community
- Llannor
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.91912, -4.38829
- Cadw reference
- 21321
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 1795 map "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).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 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 · 118 Nevin (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Plas-gwyn stands approximately 700m S of Y Ffor. The cowhouse range lies W of the farmhouse, and forms the NW side of the square farmyard.
History
Built probably in the mid C19 as part of the planned farmyard layout associated with Plas-gwyn.
Exterior
The building, which is separated from the stable/granary by a driftway, forms the NE side of the square farmyard. It is long and low, built of squared rubble and with a slated roof. Single storey with lofts. Boarded doors and ventilation windows, but a cart house at the SE end with a long stone lintel. An external stair at this end rises to a loft lit by a simple window over the carthouse entrance.
Interior
Roof trusses with tie, tall queen posts framing a central walk way, and angle struts. Two tiers of purlins.
Reason for designation
Included as part of an intact farmstead group at Plas Gwyn which form a well-preserved example of the courtyard layout found in the C19, associated especially with dairy and stock farming.
Nearby in the register
- Farm Building at rear of Plas-gwynAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Hammel Range at Plas-gwynAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Plas-gwynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cromlech Farm Burial Chamber, Four CrossesChambered Tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.