Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn and cowshed at Bodloesygad
Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 5 October 1988
- Locality
- Llan Ffestiniog
- Community
- Ffestiniog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.95169, -3.92243
- Cadw reference
- 5210
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
To the L and rear of Bodloesygad; end onto the hillside.
History
Mid-late C16 cruck barn, contemporary with, and associated with Bodloesygad; subsequently altered and enlarged.
Exterior
Single-storey rubble barn with slate roof; rubble piled up across the angle between this and the house. Broad boarded door opening to centre and narrower door to R end beside a small window; similar arrangement to rear. Small plain window to R gable end. Lower extension to L, partly of breeze block.
Interior
4-bay interior; open cruck truss to L with angular knees and blocking pieces to the blades; lapped apex. Closed central cruck truss with modern boarded partition dividing former barn and cowhouse; tiebeam and diminutive collar. C19 A-frame truss to cowhouse section; overlapping round purlins and metal-pegged collar.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Bodloesygad.
Nearby in the register
- BodloesygadDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bryn-yr-odynDomesticunder 1 mi
- House 100m SW of Bont NewyddDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stable to SE of Cynfal Fawr FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.