Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Roadside barn at Llwyn-dol-ithel farm
Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Fawnog, Tywyn, Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, Gwynedd, designated on 10 April 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 10 April 2000
- Locality
- Fawnog
- Town
- Tywyn
- Community
- Llanfihangel-y-Pennant
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.68212, -3.88382
- Cadw reference
- 23159
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 · 149 Barmouth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
The barn lies against the road close to the right-angled bend, beyond the N end of Tal-y-llyn lake, and beside the track to Llwyn-dol-ithel farm.
History
The storage building was probably constructed in the early C18 in a position to facilitate transport of grain by road. Later, in 1838, the farm of 186 acres (75ha) was owned by Aneurin Owen and tenanted by Griffith Jones.
Exterior
The barn is constructed with irregular shaped large rubble boulders, with a slate roof between rubble-coped gables. An integral lean-to at the rear with an access door and 2 small windows. The road side has a central boarded door, and a pitching door over, and to each side, a pair of slit vents to each internal level. A further 5 slit vents are arranged geometrically in the SW gable end.
Interior
The interior is divided by roof trusses into 3 bays; low tie beams with queen posts to a collar. The integral outshut is supported by a curved strut to an extension of the principal rafter.
Reason for designation
Included as an unusually well preserved farm building of C18 character constructed in the local vernacular tradition using boulders, in a conspicuous position beside the road.
Nearby in the register
- Mile MarkerTransportunder 1 mi
- Mile MarkerTransportunder 1 mi
- Beudy at RhiwogofAgriculture and Subsistence1 mi
- Plas Ty'n-y-berthDomestic1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.