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
27/11/2000
Date of Amendment
27/11/2000
Name of Property
Cornbarn-cowhouse range at Mynachdy
Unitary Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Location
In an isolated rural location and in an elevated position along a trackway to the W of the main farmstead group at Mynachdy and c100m SW of the house.
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
History
Early C18 corn barn, with a long cowhouse range added in the early-mid C19. The agricultural ranges at Mynachdy are not marked on the Tithe Map of the parish of Llanfairynghornwy, 1841; however, the map is poorly annotated, not all the buildings are shown and none of the agricultural buildings are recorded.
Exterior
Long agricultural range with a taller corn barn to the L, and an added cowhouse range to the R, with a rectangular stone-walled enclosure built on either side of the range (probably a stack yard to rear and a cattle yard to front). The corn barn has well-built rubble walls with boulder foundations; prominent corbel stones to L gable, and 3 infilled ventilation slits to the R gable. The roof is of small slates, partly grouted; the rear pitch is covered in corrugated asbestos sheeting. Narrow central opposed doors with ventilation slits either side, those to the front enlarged to make windows, those to the rear are unaltered. The cowhouse range to the right has four doors, with the sequence WDWDWDWDW; segmentally arched heads with rubble voussoirs and dripstone. The windows are either enlargements of earlier windows, or have been inserted. Three doors to the rear wall, 2 either end leading into lean-tos with catslide roofs, and a central door leading to the rear yard.
Interior
The corn barn is of 5 bays, with hewn A-frame roof trusses, with lightly-built collars pegged to the principals. The cowhouse is of 8-bays, with sawn and bolted A-frame roof trusses. Now opened into one building internally, with a stone wall partition to the R end.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good early C18 corn barn with added cowhouse range, sited prominently above the farmstead at Mynachdy to facilitate the winnowing process; part of a good farmstead group.
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