82004

 

II  

Designated  

29/10/2003  

29/10/2003  

Lofted stable and haybarn  

 

Gwynedd  

Llanbedr  

 

Afon Artro Valley  

261708  

329206  

 

Slightly set back from the W side of the country road which leads up the Afon Artro Valley. The range lies to WSW of the house at Crafnant.  

Agriculture and Subsistence  

 

The stable is dated 1827 with initials D over I E. Haybarn also dated 1827, with initials RO and W O.  

Lofted stable and haybarn, forming a T-shaped plan with the stables forming the head of the ''T'' to NW. The range is of coursed boulder construction, now with a roof of profiled sheeting but retaining stone slab copings. At the L end of the main block are the lofted stables with the principal range facing SE, doorway is to the R, a single window to L with loft window set under the eaves above. Entrance to the loft is through a doorway in the L (SW) gable accessed via an external flight of stone stairs. To the R of the main doorway is a further window (and possibly blocked doorway, difficult to see as the view was obscured) which was probably a 2nd stable unit partially blocked when the haybarn was constructed to the front of the range. The haybarn has 2 wide open bays in the SW wall (that to R now blocked). At the R end of the main range, beyond the haybarn is a further stable unit, with doorway at far R (NE) and single window to L.  

The roof retains rough collared trusses and purlins.  

Included as a little altered stable and cartshed range which forms a group with the farmhouse and other agricultural buildings which go to form the complete farmstead at Crafnant.