Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Slate Fencing at Bwthyn Cochwillan
Llanllechid, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Cochwillan, Llanllechid, Gwynedd, designated on 9 March 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 9 March 2000
- Locality
- Cochwillan
- Community
- Llanllechid
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.20393, -4.08751
- Cadw reference
- 22961
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 1896 map "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 41. Anglesey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Defines the northern boundary of Bwthyn Cochwillan.
History
Apparently contemporary with Bwthyn Cochwillan. The slate fencing is of the type noted in 1798 on the Penrhyn estates by the Revd. W Bingley as being entirely new to him: "the fences were made with pieces of blue slate...driven into the ground about a foot distant from each other, and interwoven near the top with briars, or any kind of flexible branches to hold them together". Bingley also observed that "in point of ornament" they were "sufficiently neat".
Exterior
Slate fencing consisting of thin vertical slabs set into ground and linked by horizontal wire; iron gate in fence approached by large slate slab laid as footbridge over small stream running along boundary.
Reason for designation
Included as a regionally characteristic traditional fencing type, defining the northern boundary of Bwthyn Cochwillan and thus forming a distinctive component of its historic setting.
Nearby in the register
- Bwthyn CochwillanDomesticunder 1 mi
- Fferm CochwillanDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cowhouses/Cart Shelter at Fferm CochwillanAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Pigsties at Bwthyn CochwillanAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.