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.
Date of Designation
17/02/1998
Date of Amendment
17/02/1998
Name of Property
Barn and Carthouse opposite Hafod y Maidd including attached pigsties
Location
Hafod y Maidd farm lies approximately 400m due N of Glasfryn village. The farm building forms the N side of the large farmyard on the N side of the house. The pigsties are attached at the W end, forming part of the enclosure on the W side.
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
History
Built probably in the mid-late C18, probably as part of a major remodelling of the farm, the largest on the Voelas estate.
Exterior
Built of local stone rubble graded from large to small up the walls, with a slate roof. 4-5 bays, with two cart entries towards the ends, and a third, originally higher, in the second bay from the E. Storage floor above, accessed by external stone steps on the E gable end. Attached by a wall at the S side of the W end are low stone built slated pigsties, with stone-walled runs on the S.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of an C18 agricultural building, part of the unusually fine farmyard group at Hafod y Maidd.
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