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
22007
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
20/07/1999  
Date of Amendment
20/07/1999  
Name of Property
Store and Mill at Ysgubor-fawr  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Gwynedd  
Community
Llanaelhaearn  
Town
Caernarfon  
Locality
Ysgubor-fawr  
Easting
243487  
Northing
344712  
Street Side
 
Location
Ysgubor-fawr lies at the E extermity of the community, reached from the road running N-S east of Bwlch Mawr. The small mill building forms the NW closing end of the yard in front of the house.  

Description


Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence  
Period
 

History
Probably built in the C18 or early C19 as part of a largely self-supporting small and remote farmstead.  

Exterior
The building is of stone, with a slate roof. A single rectangular cell, with opposing doors in the long sides, opening to the stockyard and the field behind, and having at the S end, an external cogwheel, part of the mechanism from a water wheel set in the small leet which runs across the gable end into a well at the centre of the stockyard. No windows.  

Interior
The building retains a trough at the SW end with a wooden pulley wheel, connected to the external driving mechanism deriving power from the watercourse across the end..  

Reason for designation
Included as a structure used for the processing of foodstuffs, part of the group of buildings comprising the well preserved small upland farmstead at Ysgubor-fawr.  

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