Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Chaff house at Uwchlawr-coed
Llanbedr, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanbedr, Gwynedd, designated on 29 October 2003.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 29 October 2003
- Locality
- Llanbedr
- Community
- Llanbedr
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.81048, -4.07741
- Cadw reference
- 81991
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 at the E side of a country road c2km SE of the village of Llanbedr. The chaff house lies to S of the house.
History
Probably C18 outbuilding, used for the preparation of fodder for livestock. There is documentary evidence for a building existing on this site by 1700.
Exterior
Built to the rear and parallel to the late C17 wing the chaff house is a single storey outbuilding built of mortared rubble masonry with a roof of small old slates. The doorway is offset to the L (E) end of the rear (N) wall and there are modern lights in the S wall and W gable. Small openings in S and E walls show where power was transfered from the waterwheel (sited between the chaff house and the service rooms to rear of the W wing of the house) to chaff house and out to the rear yard (probably via drivebelt mechanism).
Interior
The interior has been converted for use as a stable but retains a simple A frame collared truss and the small (now blocked) openings that would have housed the axles transferring power from the waterwheel to both internal and external machinery.
Reason for designation
Included as a small chaff house that forms a group with the adjacent agricultural and domestic buildings, which together form an excellent and complete farmstead group.
Nearby in the register
- Uwchlawr-coedDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bakehouse at Uwchlawr-coedDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pigsties 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.