Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lofted cowhouse at Wern Gron
Llanbedr, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 29 October 2003
- Locality
- Afon Artro Valley
- Community
- Llanbedr
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.83498, -4.06793
- Cadw reference
- 82003
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
Set well back from the N side of a country road which leads along the W side of the Artro Valley, located to NNE of Pen y Bont. The cowhouse is to SE of the old farmhouse at Wern Gron.
History
Probably C18 agricultural range, re-roofed in C20.
Exterior
Lofted agricultural range of boulder construction; roof continues over aisle to rear giving asymmetrical profile - corrugated sheet roof but retaining stone copings. The principal elevation has a slightly advanced right hand bay that has a narrow door with loft opening above offset to L; main part has a doorway offset slightly to R with small window to its R and access to the loft via a doorway in the L gable.
Interior
The roof in the main part of the range retains roughly hewn chamfered collared trusses and the timber stalls and mangers remain.
Reason for designation
Included as a good and well preserved agricultural range which forms a group with the adjacent farmhouse at Wern Gron.
Nearby in the register
- Wern Gron FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- PenybontDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pont Pen-y-bontTransportunder 1 mi
- Coed MawrDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.