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
19838
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/05/1998
Date of Amendment
14/05/1998
Name of Property
Barn 25m SE of Cae Glas
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanfrothen
Town
Locality
Croesor
Easting
262740
Northing
344680
Street Side
Location
Immediately to the SE of Cae Glas.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
3-bay boulder-built barn, probably late C17, but either incorporating or re-using 2 pairs of earlier (probably late or sub-medieval) full crucks. These are heavily smoke-blackened, implying an open-hearth context and may therefore relate to the domestic predecessor of the present C16 Cae Glas. This, either reduced by one or two bays, or else dismantled and selectively rebuilt, was encased in stone in the later period and converted to agricultural use.
Exterior
Small rectangular gabled barn; of rubble construction on part-boulder and part-rock foundations. Slate roof with tiled ridge and unkneelered rubble gable parapets; modern roof-lights. Off-centre entrance (to R) with boarded half door with small plain-glazed window to R. Further entrance to L with recessed C19 door and later rubble buttress to R; plain-glazed loading bay to R (N) gable.
Interior
3-bay interior with 2 pairs of full crucks with pronounced smoke blackening; pegged collar to L truss, collar removed to R. Modern purlins and rafters.
Reason for designation
Included for the special interest of its origins as a late or sub-medieval full-cruck building.
Group value with Cae Glas.
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