Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Field Barn at Drws yr Ymlid
Llanfair, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanfair, Gwynedd, designated on 23 May 2003.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 23 May 2003
- Locality
- Llanfair
- Community
- Llanfair
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.85459, -4.08534
- Cadw reference
- 81076
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 · 135 Harlech (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated c2km NE of Llanfair. Upland farm reached by a farm track off the mountain road that runs NE from the coast at Llanfair, just beyond the crossroads SE of Harlech. The barn is at W side of the track to the farmstead c100m NNW of the house.
History
Probably C18 field barn, probably contemporary with other farmbuildings at Drws yr Ymlid and annotated on the tithe map of the parish, 1849.
Exterior
Lofted field barn built of coursed boulder construction with large stones as quoins and lintels. Roof of profiled iron with rough stone copings. There is a single doorway centrally placed in the SW gable and a pitching hole set in the NE gable. A lean-to addition of profiled iron and wood has been built along the NW lateral wall.
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of the survey.
Reason for designation
Listed as a C18 fieldbarn of strong vernacular character which is a good example of a regionally significant building type. It is also part of a group with the farmhouse and adjacent listed buildings in this specially interesting farm group which is a good example of an C18/C19 Snowdonian farmstead.
Nearby in the register
- Fowl House at Drws yr Ymlid Farm (including rubble-walled yard)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Barn at Drws yr Ymlid FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Pigsty & Brewhouse at Drws yr Ymlid Farm (including rubble-walled yard between)Agriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Drws yr Ymlid FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.