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
24/05/2000
Date of Amendment
24/05/2000
Name of Property
Cowhouse and Stables at Pen-y-llyn
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Location
Situated immediately to the west of the cottage at Pen-y-llyn.
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
History
Contemporary with the cottage at the smallholding.
Exterior
2 rectangular plan buildings, each aligned north-south; that to east is larger and built as cowhouse, that to west smaller and used as stables. Both of roughly coursed rubblestone with quoins; slate roofs, each with slate slab coping to south gable end. Cowhouse has boarded door in west wall and hay-loft opening above doorway in north gable end; stables has doorway in east wall; south gable end of each building without openings. C20 outbuilding attached to north gable end of stables.
Interior
Interior not accessible at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included as the farmbuildings of mid-C19 quarryman's smallholding; both essentially unaltered and an integral part of this unspoilt group.
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