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
83436
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/12/2004
Date of Amendment
30/12/2004
Name of Property
Cowhouse at Maes y Meillion
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Talsarnau
Town
Locality
Eisingrug
Easting
261584
Northing
334689
Street Side
Location
Set back from the W side of the country road leading N from Eisingrug and to the NW of Maes y neuadd. The cowhouse is at the E of the group.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
The cowhouse is one of a group of farm buildings at Maes y Meillion, which were originally associated with Maes y neuadd. The cowhouse and adjacent haybarn are thought to be late C18.
Exterior
Long single storeyed cowhouse; well-coursed and roughly dressed boulders, with longer slabs as quoins and to the coped gables. Random slate roof, swept down lower to rear as over an aisle (a characteristic arrangement in regional cow-houses in Ardudwy). East elevation has outer doorways with boarded heck doors, and 2x2-pane windows in inner bays, that to left originally a doorway. Small opening in south gable, and pitching hole to north; single doorway in rear wall. (Block-work addition links cowhouse to neighbouring barn).
Interior
Pegged tie-beam trusses with collars.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well preserved traditional cowhouse; the exceptional quality of its construction may indicate is high status as serving the important estate of Maes y neuadd. Part of a group with the adjacent barn.
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