Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cart shelter and stables 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
- 53.06638, -4.26991
- Cadw reference
- 22442
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 north-east side of farmyard to north-east of the farmhouse at Uwchlaw'r-rhos; short screen wall with wide openings at each end on north-west side of yard.
History
Cart shelter and stables built as an original element of the later C19 planned Newborough Estate farm at Uwchlaw'rhos.
Exterior
Long rectangular building, aligned roughly north-west to south-east. Uncoursed rubblestone with slate lintels to doors and windows and reddish brown brick dressings to arches of cart shelter bays; slate roof. Cart shelter is on left with 2 wide segmental arches and to left a doorway; stables on right have 2 doorways, alternating with ventilated windows; unbroken rear wall.
Interior
Section to left of the cart shelter bays is a former loose box; loft above cart shelter; stables have stone cross wall and king-post roof trusses.
Reason for designation
Included as a largely unaltered later C19 cart shelter and stables, 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
- Cowhouse 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.