Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
4720
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/06/1966
Date of Amendment
13/04/2005
Name of Property
Corn barn at Cors y Gedol Hall
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Dyffryn Ardudwy
Town
Locality
Llanddwywe
Easting
260071
Northing
323077
Street Side
Location
Cors y Gedol is ENE of Llanddwywe. The corn barn lies to E of the hall.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Late C17 corn barn, dated 1683. Substantially intact, though the roof was re-slated and the rear (S) door widened in C20.
Exterior
The late C17 corn barn is a long linear range of 8 bays with wide opposing entrances to the centre of the range. Built of mortared rubble masonry with gritstone dressings; massive boulders at the base of the walls. Slate roof with stone parapet copings. The wide doorway has a segmental head and jambs with roll moulding. Flanking the doorway are 2 rows of ventilation slits in alternate positions and there is a course of doveholes directly under the eaves. Above the door, set in a gritstone frame, is a slate tablet that bears a shield in the form of a cross saltire, the device of the Vaughans. The tablet bears the initials and date G V / 1685 and the shield is surmounted by a helm with a demi lion and the motto: IMACULATA GENS. There is a doorway cut into the S end of the E gable of the corn barn and 3 ventilation slits arranged in the gable apex; the rear doorway has been widened and the lintel raised; now with RSJ at the head.
Interior
The interior of the corn barn has an exposed roof of 8-bays, each bay articulated by tie beams with angled struts; the tie beams at the E end of the building have been removed and the tie raised to form a collar, probably when the doorway was widened in the S wall. The inner N doorway has a flat head of rough stone voussoirs.
Reason for designation
Listed at grade II* as an exceptionally fine late C17 corn barn, remarkable for its size, its early date, and its fine architectural character. Part of a group of agricultural buildings associated with Cors y Gedol.
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