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
22591
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
04/11/1999
Date of Amendment
04/11/1999
Name of Property
Farm building at Troed-y-rhiw
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Mawddwy
Town
Locality
Dinas Mawddwy
Easting
288418
Northing
315993
Street Side
Location
Treod y-rhiw is against the road leading NE through the upper Dyfi valley. The farm building is adjacent and at right angles to the lower gable end of the farmhouse, across the steep slope of the valley side.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
The building retains a sub-medieval raised cruck structure, probably of the C16.
Exterior
The building is built of local stone rubble, with a corrugated iron roof. It comprises 4 bays, with a stone built extension on the second bay on the SW side. A large corrugated iron door opens into the lower end bay. The upper gable end is immediately adjacent to the road.
Interior
The building is of 4 bays, the three lower bays divided by raised cruck trusses springing from the stone walls at approximately 1.5m above the floor. The N end bay is divided from the rest of the interior by a tie beam and collar truss, the apex of the principals are halved and notched to carry a later ridge piece. The S end cruck truss has a stub tie, and 2 tiers of purlins, the upper appearing to have had a wind brace each side.
Reason for designation
Included, notwithstanding the reroofing of recent times, as an interesting example of raised cruck construction, and of particular interest as forming, with the farmhouse, a smallholding of early origin where the house and farm building are built in the same tradition. Together they form a group of buildings in their original form without later extensions, thus are largely complete, and as such of some rarity.
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