Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn (3) at Gerddi Bluog
Llanfair, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 30 November 1966
- Locality
- Llanfair
- Community
- Llanfair
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.85679, -4.05205
- Cadw reference
- 81072
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
A country road branches E off Fonllef Hir and leads to the Cwm Bychan road; c4km NE of Llanfair it passes through the farmyard at Gerddi Bluog. The barn lies to SSW of the house and at right angles to the W side of the road.
History
Late C18 stable, an inscribed stone at the E gable bears the date 1779.
Exterior
Late C18 stable built of rubble masonry; slate roof laid to diminishing courses with tiled ridge and stone copings. The W end is built into the slope and the NE corner is rounded (to accommodate the road which passes by the E gable. Single doorway offset to E end of N lateral wall. An inscribed stone in the E gable bears the initials and date: J P 1779.
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of the survey (July 2002).
Reason for designation
Included as an excellent example of a late C18 stable which forms a group with the house and other ancillary buildings at Gerddi Bluog; a good example of a C18/C19 upland farmstead.
Nearby in the register
- Barn (1) at Gerddi BluogAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Barn (2) at Gerrdi BluogAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Gerddi BluogRecreationalunder 1 mi
- Field Barn at Gerddi BluogNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.