Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bakehouse at Uwchlawr-coed
Llanbedr, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 29 October 2003
- Locality
- Llanbedr
- Community
- Llanbedr
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.81070, -4.07761
- Cadw reference
- 81988
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
Located at the E side of a country road c2km SE of the village of Llanbedr. The bakehouse lies to N of the house.
History
The bakehouse or outside kitchen is one of a number of such buildings related to the sub-medieval house types of its type in this region. There is documentary evidence for a building in this position by 1700, though the surviving building may be a successor.
Exterior
Single storey bakehouse of mortared rubble masonry; slate roof with stone copings and a squat stack to S. The principal elevation opens into the enclosed garden to the front of the house to W and has a doorway to L (N) and small 4-pane light to R.
Interior
The interior could not be inspected at the time of the survey.
Reason for designation
Included as a well preserved example of a small rural bakehouse that forms a group with the adjacent agricultural and domestic buildings, which together form an excellent and complete farmstead group.
Nearby in the register
- Pigsties at Uwchlawr-coedAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Uwchlawr-coedDomesticunder 1 mi
- Chaff house at Uwchlawr-coedAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Agricultural range at Uwchlawr-coedAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.