Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Calf-rearing House/Cowhouse at Bodgarad
Llanwnda, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bodgarad, Caernarfon, Llanwnda, Gwynedd, designated on 28 May 1999.
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
- 53.10216, -4.23543
- Cadw reference
- 21823
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)
- 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)
Cadw's description
Location
Located behind the farmhouse at Bodgarad, forming an L-shaped range of buildings with the cowhouse to the south-west.
History
Early C19 calf-rearing house/cowhouse, one of the original structures on the farm.
Exterior
Calf-rearing house/cowhouse. Short rectangular plan aligned east-west, attached to north-east corner of adjoining cowhouse. Uncoursed rubblestone on boulder plinth; grouted graded slate roof has coped verges and roughly carved kneelers. North elevation has wide opening with slate lintel to far left and tiny window to right; recessed doorway under massive stone lintel to west gable end.
Interior
Cross-wall separates east end from remainder; hay-loft above east end.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved early C19 calf-rearing house/cowhouse, part of the remarkably complete and unaltered group of C19 farmbuildings at Bodgarad.
Nearby in the register
- Hay Barn at BodgaradAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cowhouse at BodgaradAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- BodgaradDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pigsties at BodgaradAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.