19838

 

II  

Designated  

14/05/1998  

14/05/1998  

Barn 25m SE of Cae Glas  

 

Gwynedd  

Llanfrothen  

 

Croesor  

262740  

344680  

 

Immediately to the SE of Cae Glas.  

Agriculture and Subsistence  

 

3-bay boulder-built barn, probably late C17, but either incorporating or re-using 2 pairs of earlier (probably late or sub-medieval) full crucks. These are heavily smoke-blackened, implying an open-hearth context and may therefore relate to the domestic predecessor of the present C16 Cae Glas. This, either reduced by one or two bays, or else dismantled and selectively rebuilt, was encased in stone in the later period and converted to agricultural use.  

Small rectangular gabled barn; of rubble construction on part-boulder and part-rock foundations. Slate roof with tiled ridge and unkneelered rubble gable parapets; modern roof-lights. Off-centre entrance (to R) with boarded half door with small plain-glazed window to R. Further entrance to L with recessed C19 door and later rubble buttress to R; plain-glazed loading bay to R (N) gable.  

3-bay interior with 2 pairs of full crucks with pronounced smoke blackening; pegged collar to L truss, collar removed to R. Modern purlins and rafters.  

Included for the special interest of its origins as a late or sub-medieval full-cruck building. Group value with Cae Glas.