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.
Date of Designation
29/10/2003
Date of Amendment
29/10/2003
Name of Property
Cowbarn at Crafnant
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Locality
Afon Artro Valley
Location
Slightly set back from the W side of the country road which leads up the Afon Artro Valley. The barn lies to SW of the house at Crafnant.
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
History
Probably C18 cowbarnre-roofed in C20.
Exterior
A cowbarn, of roughly coursed drystone construction incorporating larger boulders at the base of the walls and large stones as quoins and lintels. Now with a roof of profiled material but retaining stone copings. There is a doorway in the NE lateral wall and the opposing doorway has been enlarged under a raking half dormer roofline which breaks the eaves; pitching hole in NW gable.
Reason for designation
Included as a little altered cowbarn which forms a group with the farmhouse and other agricultural buildings which go to form the complete farmstead at Crafnant.
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