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
22412
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/09/1999
Date of Amendment
30/09/1999
Name of Property
Buarth Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llandwrog
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Bwlch-y-llyn
Easting
250205
Northing
355283
Street Side
Location
Situated at right-angles to track running off north side of minor road running south-westwards from Bwlch-y-llyn towards the Carmel to Y Fron road; low rubblestone wall in front of cottage and similar walls to surrounding small fields.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Shown on the 1840 Tithe Map, the cottage is likely to have been built in the early C19 as a smallholder's cottage (an adjoining building shown on the map is now gone) but its occupants probably supplemented their income from subsistence farming by working in the nearby Braich Slate Quarry, which opened in 1830. It is possible that the right-hand room may formerly have been an attached cowhouse (the stack serving it is more slender than the others) and was not originally part of the domestic accommodation.
Exterior
Single-storey 3-room plan, aligned roughy north-east to south-west. Painted roughly coursed rubblestone; slate roof. Left part has C20 windows in original openings to either side of slightly offset and recessed doorway with C20 door, integral end stack to left and ridge stack to right at junction with right part (possibly formerly cowhouse - see History). This has C20 window to left and integral end stack to right. Lean-to on right gable end.
Interior
Interior not accessible at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved early C19 cottage, built in the local vernacular tradition of the area and illustrating the importance of the dual agricultural and industrial economy at this period. The building is a typical feature in the landscape of small fields and scattered cottages, characteristic of the upland settlement pattern associated with the development of quarrying in this region.
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