Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn and dovecote, Tros-y-marian
Llangoed, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llangoed, Isle of Anglesey, designated on 30 January 1968.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 30 January 1968
- Locality
- Llangoed
- Community
- Llangoed
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.30829, -4.08668
- Cadw reference
- 5519
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1883 map "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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 · 94 Beaumaris (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 41. Anglesey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set back, within private grounds, from the N side of a country road running between Penmon and Glan-yr-afon, N of the village of Llangoed. The barn and dovecote are located to the SW of the house at Tros-y-marian.
History
Late C17 barn contemporary with the adjacent house for which it was built, a stone tablet over the doorway bears the initials and date W / H A / 1678; the adjoining dovecote was added shortly after, probably contemporary with the adjacent stable range. Tros-y-marian was a substantial holding which by the mid C19 covered over 80 acres(32.4 hectares), then owned by Thomas Peers Williams Esq, probably a descendant of the Williams' for whom the house and estate buildings were built.
Exterior
A linear agricultural range with 3-bay threshing barn to centre, a lower 3 door lofted cowhouse at the L (W) end and square plan dovecote to the R; a single storey outshut has been built against the front wall of the barn, to the L of the doorway. Built of rubble masonry, slate roof with tiled ridge; dovecote now roofless and cowhouse roof in ruinous condition. The barn has opposing doorways, that in the front (S) wall has a stone tablet above which bears the initials and date W / H A / 1678. Flanking the doorways are ventilation slits, 3 to each side, the central slit set at a lower level. The dovecote has external stone stairs up to a doorway in the S wall, the rear wall has a single doorway to the L and a partially blocked segmental arch with single doorway and window; the rear gable apex has partially collapsed. The lofted cowhouse opens out into the yard to the N; a 3-door range with loft windows set under the eaves between.
Interior
Interior not inspected at the time of the survey, though from the rear it could be seen that the dovecote is lined with nesting holes up to the gable apex.
Reason for designation
Included as a substantially intact farmstead range comprising an excellent late C17 barn and cowhouse together with an early-mid C18 dovecote; an important component of the unusually complete early estate farmstead at Tros-y-marian.
Nearby in the register
- Cartshed range at Tros-y-marianAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Gate piers, Tros-y-marianDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stable range at Tros-y-marianDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tros-y-marianDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.