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Cowhouse at Bodgarad

Llanwnda, Gwynedd, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Bodgarad, Caernarfon, Llanwnda, Gwynedd, designated on 28 May 1999.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Cowhouse at Bodgarad, Llanwnda, Gwynedd, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Listed building, Grade II
Broad class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Date of designation
28 May 1999
Locality
Bodgarad
Town
Caernarfon
Community
Llanwnda
Unitary authority
Gwynedd
Country
Wales
Coordinates
53.10206, -4.23558
Cadw reference
21822

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1899 · 105 Carnarvon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1919 · Sheet 41. Anglesey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Cadw's description

Situated behind the farmhouse at Bodgarad, forming an L-shaped range of buildings with the adjoining calf-rearing house to the north-east.

Early C19 cowhouse, one of the original structures on the farm.

Cowhouse. Rectangular plan, aligned north-south, attached to south-west corner of adjoining calf-rearing house/cowhouse. Uncoursed rubblestone on boulder plinth; grouted graded slate roof. West elevation has small window with slate cill to left of centre and doorway to right; 2 small glazed panels in roof slope.

A-frame trusses.

Included as a well-preserved early C19 cowhouse, one of the remarkably complete and unaltered group of farmbuildings at Bodgarad.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0
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