Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn at Garth Maelan
Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Dolgellau, Gwynedd, designated on 19 June 1990.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 19 June 1990
- Community
- Dolgellau
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.75319, -3.86399
- Cadw reference
- 5135
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 · 135 Harlech (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated immediately behind and parallel to the house.
History
Early Cl8 and contemporary with the remodelling of the house.
Exterior
7 bay structure. Central threshing floor, opposite doorways and incorporating lofted cowhouse/stable to right end. Rubble masonry. Steeply pitched corrugated iron roof. Timber lintel over main doorway, plank doors. Cowhouse doorway to right, plank door, stone lintel; loft doorway over, plank door. Later? double doors to extreme left, timber lintel. Left gable end clad in corrugated iron.
Five original through purlin collared trusses, 2 new trusses, one forming left gable end. Tie beams to trusses over threshing floor.
Reason for designation
Included for group value.
Nearby in the register
- Garth MaelanDomesticunder 1 mi
- Summerhouse at Garth MaelanGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Garth-BleiddynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Curved forecourt Walls to Coed-y-MochDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.