Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cart Shelter and Pigsties at Plas-uchaf
Llanllechid, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 9 March 2000
- Locality
- Plas-uchaf
- Community
- Llanllechid
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.20834, -4.06637
- Cadw reference
- 22948
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 1896 "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated immediately to the north of the farm cottages at Plas-uchaf; rubblestone wall defines small yard to front (west) of cart shelter and pigsties front onto another yard to east.
History
Contemporary with the cottages and other farmbuildings at Plas-uchaf.
Exterior
Cart shelter and pigsties, the former the larger of the 2 buildings and to the south, the whole range set on a north-south alignment. Roughly coursed rubblestone; slate roofs. Cart shelter has 2 open bays with substantial stone pier between on west; pigsties face onto yard to east and are divided into one large and one smaller pen with well-preserved troughs and iron gates to front.
Interior
Interior not accessible at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included as an integral part of the well-preserved mid-C19 farmstead group at Plas-uchaf.
Nearby in the register
- Plas-uchafDomesticunder 1 mi
- L-shaped Cowhouse Range at Plas-uchafAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Small Cowhouse Range at Plas-uchafAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Tan-y-marianDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.