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
5242
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
11/12/1991
Date of Amendment
26/05/1995
Name of Property
Barn to S of Hendre Fridd y Mynach
Address
A 494
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Brithdir and Llanfachreth
Town
Locality
Rhydymain
Easting
280580
Northing
323481
Street Side
NW
Location
Diagonally opposite Hendre Ffridd y Mynach and attached to it by a high rubble wall.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Originally part of the property of Cymmer Abbey and transfered to private ownership in 1562; subsequently the property was conveyed in 1582 from Elizabeth Multon, widow, to John Hill, gentleman of London.
Exterior
Single-storey rubble and slated barn with gable parapets; lower rear wall set into a slope. Outside stone stepped access to W gable entrance under long lintel. Long side attached to L to high rubble wall; boarded primary entrance with modern garage opening to R.
Interior
4-bay with three early roof trusses including one pegged cruck truss (with arched collar) supported by a rough tie beam on walls of upper end; no wall plates but timber lintels overboarded doorways flanking cobbled through-passage. 2 lesser trusses with pegged-on collars as before. Bressummer beam divides lower end which was originally floored. Various ventilation slits.
Reason for designation
Group value with Hendre Ffridd y Mynach.
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