Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
82003
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/10/2003
Date of Amendment
29/10/2003
Name of Property
Lofted cowhouse at Wern Gron
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanbedr
Town
Locality
Afon Artro Valley
Easting
260793
Northing
328389
Street Side
Location
Set well back from the N side of a country road which leads along the W side of the Artro Valley, located to NNE of Pen y Bont. The cowhouse is to SE of the old farmhouse at Wern Gron.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Probably C18 agricultural range, re-roofed in C20.
Exterior
Lofted agricultural range of boulder construction; roof continues over aisle to rear giving asymmetrical profile - corrugated sheet roof but retaining stone copings. The principal elevation has a slightly advanced right hand bay that has a narrow door with loft opening above offset to L; main part has a doorway offset slightly to R with small window to its R and access to the loft via a doorway in the L gable.
Interior
The roof in the main part of the range retains roughly hewn chamfered collared trusses and the timber stalls and mangers remain.
Reason for designation
Included as a good and well preserved agricultural range which forms a group with the adjacent farmhouse at Wern Gron.
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