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
20/05/1998
Date of Amendment
20/05/1998
Name of Property
Corn barn at Trefarthen (S side of yard)
Unitary Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Location
Located on the S side of the farmyard of Trefarthen.
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
History
Built probably early C18. The building appears to be shown on a Vaynol estate map dated 1777.
Exterior
A five bay corn barn with wide opposed doors to centre. Rubble walls with two tiers of slit vents in the lateral walls, 7 either side of the doors. Three levels of slits vents to gable walls, partly blocked. Pitched slate roof with slate slab copings, tapered finial with weather-vane to E end. Central tall doors with stone voussoir basket arch, pitching door over door on N side, and blocked door to E gable.
Interior
Roof has four queen-post trusses. Beam to support loft formerly running on either side of door, but one only remains ('1833' painted on). Vents have small timber struts across, formerly holding wire bars. Area of threshing floor beteween doors has stone slabs.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good and unaltered example of an early C18 corn barn,which forms part of an exceptionally complete farmstead group at Trefarthen.
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