Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Field Barn at Ty'n Llwyn Farmhouse
Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 19 June 1990
- Locality
- Rhiw Rhedyncochion
- Community
- Dolgellau
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.73970, -3.93307
- Cadw reference
- 5161
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "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).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated l00m NW of the farmhouse against the hillside.
History
Mid Cl7.
Exterior
3 bay lofted field barn contemporary with the farmhouse. Built along the slope. Rubble masonry. Steeply pitched corrugated asbestos roof. Gable parapet to right end.
Central doorway; stone lintel. Loft entry to right gable end, deep stone lintel. Windows to loft and ground floor at left gable end, deep stone lintels, Cl9 frames.
2 original collar and tie beam trusses; cambered collars. Tie beams form anchors for ground floor partitions.
Reason for designation
Listed principally for group value with house as a rare example of a contemporary agricultural building.
Nearby in the register
- Ty'n Llwyn FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stables attached to Ty'n Llwyn FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Penamen Ucha Farm, Model FarmyardAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Penamen Ucha Farm, Model FarmyardAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.