Lofted cowhouse at Wern Gron, Llanbedr, Gwynedd

Coordinates

Latitude: 52.835 / 52°50'5"N

Longitude: -4.0679 / 4°4'4"W

OS Eastings: 260793

OS Northings: 328389

OS Grid: SH607283

Mapcode National: GBR 5S.TGB7

Mapcode Global: WH566.H03G

Plus Code: 9C4QRWMJ+XR

Entry Name: Lofted cowhouse at Wern Gron

Listing Date: 29 October 2003

Last Amended: 29 October 2003

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 82003

Building Class: Agriculture and Subsistence

ID on this website: 300082003

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.

County: Gwynedd

Community: Llanbedr

Locality: Afon Artro Valley

Traditional County: Merionethshire

Tagged with: Cowshed

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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.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a good and well preserved agricultural range which forms a group with the adjacent farmhouse at Wern Gron.

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Lofted cowhouse at Wern Gron

A Grade II Listed Building in Llanbedr, Gwynedd