Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Field Barn at Bryn Mawr
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
- 52.73133, -3.88274
- Cadw reference
- 5141
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
Situated alongside a bend in the farm track 150m NE of the farmhouse.
History
Cl7, three bay field barn. Sited downhill with upper end partly dug into hillside.
Exterior
Drystone rubble masonry. Steeply pitched quarry slate roof, plain eaves, raking gable parapets.
Central opposed doorways, stone lintels, split plank doors. Further door to extreme left on front, stone lintel, plank door. Pitching door to uphill gable end. 2 through purlin collar and tie beam trusses. C20 rubble lean-to to downhill gable end, corrugated iron roof.
Reason for designation
Contemporary group value with house and other field barn 50m to E.
Nearby in the register
- Field Barn at Bryn MawrAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Dower House at Bryn MawrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bryn Mawr FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cowhouse to S. of Bryn MawrAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.