Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hay Barn to east of Ty-hen
Llanwnda, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanwnda, Caernarfon, 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
- Llanwnda
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Llanwnda
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.09382, -4.28441
- Cadw reference
- 21832
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 · 105 Carnarvon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located on the west side of the A 499 to the west of the main farmstead group at Ty-hen.
History
Not shown on the 1839 Tithe Map, the hay barn is a mid-C19 structure, part of the remodelling of the farmstead at Ty-hen carried out by the Newborough Estate after c1850.
Exterior
Hay barn. 4-bay rectangular structure, aligned roughly east-west, originally open on both long sides but now closed in with timber boarding on south side. Irregularly coursed rubblestone with red brick dressings to gable ends, the 3 other piers to each long side of square section and entirely of brick; shallow-pitched tin sheeting roof has replaced original slate. East gable end has wide opening with timber lintel and segmental brick relieving arch to ground floor and square pitching opening directly above.
Interior
Interior not accessible at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved and prominently located hay barn forming part of the essentially mid-C19 planned farmstead at Ty-hen.
Nearby in the register
- Stables, Cart Shelter and Cowhouse Range at Ty-henAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Bothy and Pigsties at Ty-henAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Ty-henDomesticunder 1 mi
- MaengwynDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.