Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cowhouse at Cefn Rhengwrt
Llanwnda, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 28 May 1999
- Locality
- Saron
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Llanwnda
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.09141, -4.31131
- Cadw reference
- 21827
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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 on the northern side of the farmyard at Cefn Rhengwrt.
History
The farm is not shown on the 1839 Tithe Map and it appears to be one of several planned farmsteads established by the Newborough Estate in this region after c1850.
Exterior
Cowhouse. Long rectangular-plan building, aligned roughly east-west and forming the northern side of the farmyard. Irregularly coursed rubblestone with slate-stone lintels to doors and window; slate roof with small ridge ventilators and glass rooflights to part housing animals to right. Stable door to left with 3 slit vents to hay storage to its right; 3 doorways to stock section with vertically louvered window between centre and left doorways. C20 lean-to attached to left gable end.
Interior
A-frame trusses.
Reason for designation
Included as a largely unaltered cowhouse, forming part of the well-preserved mid-C19 planned Newborough Estate farmstead at Cefn Rhengwrt.
Nearby in the register
- Bothy and Pigsties at Cefn RhengwrtAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Stables and Cart Shelter at Cefn RhengwrtAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cefn RhengwrtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Glasfryn & TamariuDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.