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
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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