Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cowhouse at Uwchlaw'r-rhos
Llandwrog, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Penygroes, Llandwrog, Gwynedd, designated on 30 September 1999.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 30 September 1999
- Locality
- Penygroes
- Community
- Llandwrog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.06623, -4.27002
- Cadw reference
- 22441
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 on south-west side of farmyard to north-east of the farmhouse at Uwchlaw'r-rhos.
History
Cowhouse built as an original element of the later C19 planned Newborough Estate farm at Uwchlaw'r-rhos; there is a suggestion from a change in stonework and a structural break at the same point that the part to the south-east may pre-date that to the north-west.
Exterior
Long rectangular building, aligned roughly north-west to south-east with short range at right-angles to rear on right. Uncoursed rubblestone on left and roughly coursed rubblestone to right; slate roof with ventilators and slate-coped verges. Section on left has doorways to far left and offset to right with ventilation slits flanking latter and windows to left and right. Section to right has 2 doorways on right and ventilation slits to the left; brick repair to right-hand doorway.
Interior
Bolted A-frame trusses throughout.
Reason for designation
Included as a largely unaltered later C19 cowhouse, forming part of the well-preserved planned Newborough Estate farm at Uwchlaw'r-rhos, an important and characteristic building type in this region.
Nearby in the register
- Cart shelter and stables at Uwchlaw'r-rhosAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Uwchlaw'r-rhosDomesticunder 1 mi
- Hut Group near Pen Llwyn, CarmelEnclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
- Early Habitation Site 180m West of Pen-Yr-AlltConcentric enclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.