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North range of farm buildings at Tan-y-bwlch

A Grade II Listed Building in Mawddwy, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.7201 / 52°43'12"N

Longitude: -3.6849 / 3°41'5"W

OS Eastings: 286293

OS Northings: 314937

OS Grid: SH862149

Mapcode National: GBR 99.1MDR

Mapcode Global: WH67X.CWJL

Plus Code: 9C4RP8C8+22

Entry Name: North range of farm buildings at Tan-y-bwlch

Listing Date: 4 November 1999

Last Amended: 4 November 1999

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 22609

Building Class: Agriculture and Subsistence

ID on this website: 300022609

Location: The square farmyard at Tan-y-bwlch stands apart and some 80m N of the farmhouse.

County: Gwynedd

Community: Mawddwy

Community: Mawddwy

Locality: Dinas Mawddwy

Traditional County: Merionethshire

Tagged with: Agricultural structure

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History

The earlier farmhouse at Tan-y-bwlch became the home farm for the Buckley estate at Dinas Mawddwy from the later 1860s. Sir Edmund Buckley, son of a wealthy Manchester business man planned to develop the area with appropriate industries, building a fine Romantic Elizabethan house, Plas Dinas, and shortly after, workers cottages, a hotel, and his home farm. The new planned square of farm buildings he undertook entirely in in-situ concrete construction, a new material which was being pioneered at about the same time by Lord Sudely at Greygynog, Powys. When the estate was sold in 1878, the buildings were partially completed and comprised 'stalls for 13 oxen and for a like number of young cattle; calf kits; engine and boiler room, machine house and cutting room, loose box with granary and hay and straw loft over'. The concrete used here is a no-fines concrete using slate quarry waste, presumably from Buckley's own quarry, as an aggregate, cast between shutters in lifts of some 60cm, and without provision for linear movement. The walls are of a consistent 230-250mm thickness throughout. There is no indication of rendering internally or externally, but they may once have been limewashed.

Exterior

The N range of farmbuildings consists entirely of single storey accommodation for cattle, and is attached to the E range at the NE corner. Built of in-situ concrete with a slate roof. Nine bays, with 5 alternating stable doors and ventilation windows.

Interior

The cowhouse range is of 9 bays formed by tie-beam and principal rafter trusses supporting a double tier of purlins and a ridge piece. It has a raised feeding walk along the N wall, with timber stall partitions and feed mangers. Behind the animals, a slightly lowered floor of patterned bricks laid to fall to a central drain channel.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a part of a well-planned mid-later C19 estate farmyard, and one of special interest where in-situ concrete has been used for the whole construction; a very early example of the successful and long lasting use of this technique.

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