Farm building at Wern-gau, Mawddwy, Gwynedd

Coordinates

Latitude: 52.7579 / 52°45'28"N

Longitude: -3.6206 / 3°37'14"W

OS Eastings: 290733

OS Northings: 319046

OS Grid: SH907190

Mapcode National: GBR 6C.Z90P

Mapcode Global: WH67R.CY52

Plus Code: 9C4RQ95H+5Q

Entry Name: Farm building at Wern-gau

Listing Date: 4 November 1999

Last Amended: 4 November 1999

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 22615

Building Class: Agriculture and Subsistence

ID on this website: 300022615

Location: Wern-gau farm lies on the left bank of the upper Dyfi, above Llanymawddwy. The farm building stands across the farm access road, approximately 30m S of the S gable end of the house.

County: Gwynedd

Community: Mawddwy

Locality: Llanymawddwy

Traditional County: Merionethshire

Tagged with: Agricultural structure

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History

The farmstead was probably built or remodelled by the Roberts estate of Bryn Hall, the eminent London surgeon, Sir William Roberts MD FRS having bought the former Buckley estate in 1878. He undertook many works of improvement to the buildings and living conditions in the district. The multi-purpose farm building was probably built at the same time as the farmhouse in the late C19.

Exterior

Built of local rubble stonework, with a thick small slate roof. The building is uphill sited close to the river, and consists of a 3-bay barn, with small central door stable door hung to a heavy frame, and a single ventilation slit each side, and a 2-bay lofted stable at the upper end, the E front set back from the front wall of the barn. Single stable door, and two small square holes over. This has an access door in the end gable, just above ground level. Added to the lower end of the barn, a stone and corrugated iron roofed lean-to, and a small opening or owl-hole high in the gable of the barn.

Interior

The barn has two C19 king-post trusses supporting the purlins.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a good C19 multipurpose farm building for a mixed farm built in the later C19 by a local estate as part of land and farming improvements undertaken at the time. Of group value with the farmhouse.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Wern-gau
The farm is located on the SE side of the upper Dyfi valley, and is reached by a trackway from Pont-y-pumryd on the main valley road N of Llanymawddwy.
II* Bryn Hall
The house stands in its own grounds below the main road through the Dyfi valley, approximately 520m N of Llanymawddwy.
II Lloyd Chest Tomb at the Church of St Tydecho
The chest tomb stands in the angle between the porch and the S wall of the nave.
II Church of St Tydecho
The church stands in a raised oval churchyard, by the road leading NE through the Cwm Dyfi, NE of Dinas Mawddwy.
II Ty-uchaf
The house stands just beyond the SW side of the churchyard, fronting the main road running along the NW side of the Dyfi valley.
II Ty-isaf
The building fronts the main N-S road through the valley on the E side, just S of the village centre of Llanymawddwy.
II Pen-y-graean
The two cottages, Tan-y-graean and Pen-y-graean to the N are set above the main road through the valley, S of the centre of the village.
II Tan-y-graean
The two cottages, Tan-y-graean and the adjoining cottage to the N are situated above and on the E side of the main road through the valley, opposite Ty-isaf, south of the centre of Llanymawddwy.

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Farm building at Wern-gau

A Grade II Listed Building in Mawddwy, Gwynedd