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
4292
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/10/1971
Date of Amendment
30/03/1999
Name of Property
Barn at Clenennau
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Dolbenmaen
Town
Dolbenmaen
Locality
Golan
Easting
253172
Northing
342477
Street Side
Location
The barn stands on the W side of the yard, on the NW side of the farmhouse.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
The barn is probably of C16 origin, partially rebuilt in the C17 to which period the roof trusses belong, and recovered in the C19, probably the WoG 1838 date on the torching. It contains, at the S end, a moulded beam said to be C15 (RCHM) although it is improbable that it represents an earlier domestic use of the building.
Exterior
Built of boulders and rubble stonework, with a slate roof. Central opposed doors, that to the W with a lower lintel, and a small door at the N end. Long ventilation slits to the barn section. At the S end, the upper floor granary reached by a substantial external stone stair on the E side, and door to the lower room in the gable end.
Interior
Roof of 7 bays with queen post trusses, probably of the C17, with cambered collars and the principals trenched for two tiers of purlins, replaced by the present 3 tiers. On the soffit of the ties, a mortice for an angled brace suggesting that the original structure was timber framed. Torching under the slates dated WoG 1838, for Griffiths family. Against the S gable wall, a re-used moulded and brattished beam. Internal division between the S end and the main barn.
Reason for designation
Included as a fine and early agricultural building in good condition, of group value with Clenennau farmhouse and adjacent ruined sub-medieval buildings.
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