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
19839
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/05/1998
Date of Amendment
14/05/1998
Name of Property
Barn 100m NE of Cae Glas
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanfrothen
Town
Locality
Croesor
Easting
262806
Northing
344746
Street Side
Location
Located approximately 100m NE of Cae Glas, set gable into a hill-slope and with a modern barn adjoining to the NE.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
3-bay boulder-built barn of late C17 or early C18 date and associated with the nearby Cae Glas.
Exterior
Small rectangular field barn of rubble construction on boulder foundations; old slates to SW roof pitch, corrugated iron to NE, unkneelered rubble gable parapets. Recessed boarded door to downhill gable end and loading bay to uphill gable; further entrance to NE side, with recessed boarded door as before.
Interior
3-bay interior with original collar-and-tie-beam roof trusses and pegged purlins, all with rough scantling.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a complete surviving late C17/early C18 vernacular field barn.
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