Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Granary at Egryn
Llansannan, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 21 July 1999
- Locality
- Egryn
- Community
- Llansannan
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.16336, -3.47247
- Cadw reference
- 22069
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
At the SW side of a country lane and close to the Afon Ystrad, c1km SE of Groes.
History
Late C18 granary.
Exterior
Lofted granary built of rubble masonry with roughly dressed stone quoins and voussoir arches over openings; slate roof. The entrance elevation (SE) leads out onto the yard, the ground floor with a centrally placed doorway; access to the loft via stone steps at the SW gable return, a further boarded doorway at the opposite end.
Reason for designation
Included as a very well preserved example of a granary which forms part of a largely intact farmstead group at Egryn.
Nearby in the register
- Egryn and attached barnDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lofted cartshed, stable, brewhouse and pigsty range at EgrynAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Segrwyd Mill and Mill HouseIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Entrance gates and walls to Groes HallDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.