Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn to E of Castellmarch
Llanengan, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 19 October 1971
- Locality
- Castellmarch
- Town
- Pwllheli
- Community
- Llanengan
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.83827, -4.50364
- Cadw reference
- 4316
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1830 "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated in farmyard some 200m E of Castellmarch on S side of drive from A499, some 1.5 km N of Abersoch.
History
Barn of uncertain date, possibly C17 in origin. Marked on 1839 Tithe Map.
Exterior
Barn, rubble stone with slate close-eaved roof. Boulder foundations. Large long range with W front centre door with timber lintel, 4 short loops each side to ground floor, first floor boarded large loft opening each side, each flanked by single loops. S end has 3 loops to lower level, dripcourse under gable. E side is obscured by C20 additions but has centre doorway with cambered head and stone voussoirs to arch. 4 loops each side divided into 2 pairs by a blocked window and 3 blocked loops each side at higher level.
Interior
Earlier C20 7-bay pine roof, replaced after a fire. Splayed reveals to loops.
Reason for designation
Included as a substantial stone barn possibly of the later C17 or C18.
Nearby in the register
- CastellmarchDomesticunder 1 mi
- Poultry House at RhandirAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Hut Circle at Cae-Cerig-IsafUnenclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
- PenygraigDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.