Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cowhouse at Rhiwerfa
Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Abertrinant, 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
- Abertrinant
- Community
- Llanfihangel-y-Pennant
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.63679, -3.98249
- Cadw reference
- 23213
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
Rhiwerfa lies on level ground at high level on the NW side of the narrow valley of the Afon Fathew, and is reached by a steep farm road from the B4405, at Mile 6 from Twywn. The cowhouse is the middle of three parallel buildings.
History
The three farm buildings are set parallel with their E gable ends aligned on the farm road. They were probably all built together in the mid C19, with the barn at the N, the cowhouse int he middle, and the shorter carthouse at the S.
Exterior
The cowhouse is built of thin bedded slate rubble with a slate roof, slate clad verge and boarded rafter ends. It is of 4 bays, three with an open front now clad with corrugated iron, and a fourth bay at the road end with a large boarded window, and its original access from the gable end, the opening having a cut slate lintel, now blocked.
Reason for designation
Included as part of a well preserved group of farm buildings planned as a series of parallel ranges, a type of farm layout which is a characteristic feature of this area.
Nearby in the register
- Barn at RhiwerfaAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Carthouse and granary at RhiwerfaAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Mile MarkerTransportunder 1 mi
- Mile MarkerTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.