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
5253
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/05/1993
Date of Amendment
23/05/2003
Name of Property
Fowl House at Drws yr Ymlid Farm (including rubble-walled yard)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanfair
Town
Locality
Llanfair
Easting
259740
Northing
330507
Street Side
Location
Situated c2km NE of Llanfair. Upland farm reached by farm track off the mountain road that runs NE from the coast at Llanfair, just beyond the crossroads SE of Harlech. The Fowl House lies immediately to E of the farmhouse.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
C19 fowlhouse, contemporary with other farmbuildings at Drws yr Ymlid and annotated on the tithe map of the parish, 1849.
Exterior
C19 farm-building that appears to have been built as a general fowl-house for chickens and geese; structures like this were particularly intended to protect these animals from foxes. The local rubble structure comprises a monopitched slate roofed building to the W end where it is separated from the boundary of the farmhouse forecourt by a small rectangular enclosure that is open to S. On the eastern side of the fowl-house is a quadrant-shaped rubble-walled and gated yard from within which the building is entered. The fowl-house would have originally been floored internally and access is on its E side via two openings divided by a slate lintel - a small square aperture for chickens over a taller one for geese. On the N side of the yard near the entrance is a small goose pen - a low rectangular recess with stone lintel.
Interior
Internally the fowl-house has a stone-flagged floor.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with the farmhouse and adjacent listed buildings as a rare surviving example of this building type and set within this specially interesting upland farm group.
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