Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
4662
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
20/10/1966
Date of Amendment
31/01/2001
Name of Property
Barn at Gwern-y-braichdwr
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llandderfel
Town
Locality
Cwm Main
Easting
299766
Northing
342220
Street Side
Location
Located to the E of the Stable Block at Gwern-y-braichdwr.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
First-half C17 barn, built to serve Gwer-y-braichdwr and contemporary with the adjacent stables.
Exterior
Rectangular barn of local stone construction with steeply-pitched corrugated tin roof. The E side has 2 entrances with modern boarded doors, that to the centre full-height, that to its R lower. The S gable is set into the slope with a track running behind it. This has an upper loading bay with exposed timber lintel. Window to the W side (formerly an entrance, now reduced); expressed timber lintel.
Interior
Five-bay interior with reused cruck blades forming pegged collar and tie-beam trusses, two of the tie beams cut and removed.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good early C17 barn retaining reused cruck blades from an earlier structure and having good original character.
Part of a good farmstead group.
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