Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
10/04/2000
Date of Amendment
10/04/2000
Name of Property
Barn at Maes-y-pandy
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanfihangel-y-Pennant
Location
Maes-y-pandy farmstead lies in the valley bottom, close to the Afon Fathew, and SW of Llyn Mwyngil. The barn stands on an eminence running across the valley, to the NW of the farmhouse.
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
History
Built in c.1780, probably by the Nannau family in whose ownership the farm was in the C18.
Exterior
Built of regular local stone rubble on a foundation which includes quartz boulders. Slate roof between raised boulder gables. The building consists of the main 5-bay barn, with a rear wing on the NE which provides open fronted cartsheds and granary over. The barn has a central pair of doors in a timber frame with central post, concrete lintel over replacing timber c.1975. Similar door on NW side. Two tiers of ventilation slits. Pitching doors in each gable end, and a new opening to admit farm machinery in the NE gable. Added to the rear, a 2-bay cart house, the lintels replaced in timber, and a small glazed window to the granary loft.
Interior
Four tie beam trusses with raking struts.
Reason for designation
Included as a fine late C18 free-standing barn as appropriate to a more prosperous farmstead, so placed to allow through draught for winnowing.
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