Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Haybarn at Llwyn Hwlcyn
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
- 52.83447, -4.10098
- Cadw reference
- 81082
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
Located c1km SE of Llanfair, in an isolated rural location at the end of a private track off a narrow country road which branches NE off the road which in turn branches NE off the A496 at Pont Pen-y-sarn-hir; to rear of range NNE of the house.
History
Probably late C19 haybarn, re-roofed in later C20.
Exterior
Open sided haybarn built of rubble masonry; slate roof with vented ridge. The barn is of 3 bays articulated by square columns. The W gable has a wide doorway with a cambered arch of stone voussoirs; a pitching hole is set in the gable apex.
Interior
The roof has sawn timber trusses with angled struts.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good C19 haybarn which forms a group with the farmhouse and other buildings at the upland farmstead at Llwyn Hwlcyn.
Nearby in the register
- Agricultural range at Llwyn HwlcynAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cartshed at Llwyn HwlcynAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Llwyn HwlcynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pigsty range at Llwyn HwlcynAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.