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
22575
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
04/11/1999
Date of Amendment
04/11/1999
Name of Property
Sarn-newydd
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Mawddwy
Town
Machynlleth
Locality
Dinas Mawddwy
Easting
286368
Northing
317106
Street Side
Location
The building stands on the E side of the road running NW-SE through Cwm Cywarch.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
The farm building, probably originally a cowhouse, is sub-medieval in date, probably of the C16, with a single bay stable building added at a later, possibly C18, date. The adjoining land was held in 1842 by John Bird, and worked by John Jones.
Exterior
The building is built with white quartzite boulders and rubble, and has a slate roof on three bays, with corrugated iron on the N end bay and the rear. It consists of a 4-bay farm building, probably a cowhouse, with a stable and store at the SE end, aligned against the road, with three stable-type doors to the front and 2 very narrow slit vents towards the SE end. A single door opens from the rear into a small stock yard. The stable, which is wider, has the roof extended at the front over a longitudinal store, a stable door and a pitching door in the end gable.
Interior
The interior of the main barn section is constructed on four pairs of full crucks, erected from the SE and spanning 4.6m, set on stone pads, with halved-in tie and collar beams, and tenoned apex. They carry 2 tiers of heavy splay-scarfed purlins, and an angled ridge piece. The trusses form 4 nearly equal bays of approximately 3.37m. The soffits of both collars and ties are drilled for staves, presumably originally supporting wattle and daub, and there is one mortice for a vertical stud. The frame is secured with double square tosh-pegs. The tie beams extend on to plates on the wall heads. The rafters, which also appear to be original, are drilled for pegs to the rafters. The N end bay is partially floored over, and has a continuous manger along the rear wall. It is divided from the front store by a timber partition.
Reason for designation
Included as one of the best preserved and most instructive cruck constructed farm buildings in the area, the full cruck form being relatively rare in the Snowdonia area; a good example of a traditional farmbuilding for stock.
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