Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Horse Drinking Trough
Llandwrog, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llandwrog, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, designated on 30 April 1974.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Water Supply and Drainage
- Date of designation
- 30 April 1974
- Locality
- Llandwrog
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Llandwrog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.07897, -4.31362
- Cadw reference
- 22427
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 · 118 Nevin (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated in rubblestone boundary wall immediately to north-east of Nos.1-3 Tair Ysgol (School Cottages)
History
Erected as part of the remodelling of Llandwrog as an estate village by the third Lord Newborough in the mid C19.
Exterior
Small structure built in the style of a classical temple or mausoleum. Uncoursed rubblestone rear and sides with tooled ashlar facade and finely jointed stone slab roof. Front is pedimented with plain moulded cornice and coped parapet. Square-headed recess has massive slate slab with drain-hole forming front of drinking trough.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved and distinctive feature of the mid C19 planned estate village. Llandwrog is among the best-preserved such villages in this part of Wales from this period.
Nearby in the register
- No.3 Tai'r Ysgol (School Cottages)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Bwthyn Rhosyn (Rose Cottage)Domesticunder 1 mi
- No.2 Tai'r Ysgol (School Cottages)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Caer EglwysDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.