Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cow house and hay store at Bryndinas
Tywyn, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Cwm Maethlon (Happy Valley), Tywyn, Gwynedd, designated on 24 June 2005.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 24 June 2005
- Locality
- Cwm Maethlon (Happy Valley)
- Community
- Tywyn
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.56764, -4.01534
- Cadw reference
- 84538
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
Cadw's description
Location
To the S of the house, and the northernmost of 3 parallel farm ranges.
History
The cow house was built in the early C19 and is shown on the 1841 Tithe map. The hay store was added later and is shown on the 1889 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
The cow house is of rubble-stone with corrugated asbestos-cement roof. Facing the house to the N it has a full-height doorway to the R, and a boarded door to the L. The L gable end has a small-pane loft window, formerly a loading doorway. The higher hay barn on the R side is open-fronted with a central square pier and corrugated iron roof. The gable end, formerly open, is infilled with rubble stone and has a loft doorway. The rear is also open-fronted but has a round pier. A later roof covers the area between the building and the multi-purpose farm range immediately S.
Interior
The hay store has renewed wooden trusses of the mid C20.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a farm building retaining definite vernacular character and, with the house and other listed farm buildings, as part of a strong farm group retaining historical integrity.
Nearby in the register
- Multi-purpose farm range at BryndinasNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Cow house at BryndinasNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Bryn DinasDomesticunder 1 mi
- Hen Dyffryn GwynDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.