Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Out-kitchen and pigsty at Groes Las
Llanfair, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 24 October 2003
- Locality
- Llanfair
- Community
- Llanfair
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.84684, -4.11367
- Cadw reference
- 81853
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
At the S end of the farmyard enclosure at Groes Las.
History
The building is dated 1838.
Exterior
Probably built as an outside kitchen, perhaps incorporating the pigsty from the outset. Single storeyed, built against the slope. Rubble walls and random slate roof with boulder copings to gables. Stack on lower gable. Doorway towards centre with date on lintel and initials D.P.G. Tiny window to its right. Pigsty occupies the left hand section, and is accessed at a higher level via a doorway in the upper gable end. The rough remains of an enclosed yard adjoin the building.
Interior
Fireplace with oven alongside at gable end. Crude pegged collar-beam truss partly under-built by a rough stone wall, separating kitchen from pigsty at the higher level. The wall appears to be inserted, but the internal division may have been in place from the outset.
Reason for designation
Listed as a dated out-kitchen/pigsty, a significant component of the well-preserved and exceptionally intact traditional farmstead group at Groes las.
Nearby in the register
- Farm-buildings at Groes LasAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Groes LasDomesticunder 1 mi
- Small animal shed at Groes LasAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Tan y Buarth and PrysgDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.