Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Outbuilding at Glan-y-morfa
Bryn-Crug, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bryn Crug, Tywyn, Gwynedd, designated on 15 August 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 15 August 2000
- Locality
- Bryn Crug
- Town
- Tywyn
- Community
- Bryn-Crug
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.61687, -4.05168
- Cadw reference
- 23904
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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
Glan-y-morfa stands beside the road from Bryn Crug to Llanfihangel. The building stands in front of the former farmhouse, and forms the NE side of the former farmyard.
History
The building was probably originally a barn, built in the late C17-early C18, the openings possibly altered at the time the building served as a small methodist chapel, probably under the guidance of Dafydd Ionawr, a preacher of local significance, in the mid C19, who was born and bred at Glan-y-morfa.
Exterior
Built of locally derived boulders with an admixture of white quartz. Graded slate roof between raised and coped parapets on double-ovolo moulded kneelers. A single storey building of 3 bays with narrow off-centre opposing doors with half-round arched heads of stone. C20 Boarded door and fanlight in the head of the opening. The bay against the road has a similarly contructed window opening, with a C20 glazed window. Ventilation slits at 2 levels, and two in the gable end below a pitching door.
Reason for designation
Included as a farm building of early origin, adapted in the C19 with distinctive arched openings.
Nearby in the register
- Lofted farm building at Glan-y-morfaAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Water lift pump near Pentre-Uchaf, BryncrugWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- GeufronDomesticunder 1 mi
- Haybarn at GeufronAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.