Barn at Gwern-y-braichdwr, Llandderfel, Gwynedd

Coordinates

Latitude: 52.9679 / 52°58'4"N

Longitude: -3.4939 / 3°29'38"W

OS Eastings: 299766

OS Northings: 342220

OS Grid: SH997422

Mapcode National: GBR 6J.K3RB

Mapcode Global: WH66V.9NHK

Plus Code: 9C4RXG94+5C

Entry Name: Barn at Gwern-y-braichdwr

Listing Date: 20 October 1966

Last Amended: 31 January 2001

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 4662

Building Class: Agriculture and Subsistence

ID on this website: 300004662

Location: Located to the E of the Stable Block at Gwern-y-braichdwr.

County: Gwynedd

Community: Llandderfel

Locality: Cwm Main

Traditional County: Merionethshire

Tagged with: Barn

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History

First-half C17 barn, built to serve Gwer-y-braichdwr and contemporary with the adjacent stables.

Exterior

Rectangular barn of local stone construction with steeply-pitched corrugated tin roof. The E side has 2 entrances with modern boarded doors, that to the centre full-height, that to its R lower. The S gable is set into the slope with a track running behind it. This has an upper loading bay with exposed timber lintel. Window to the W side (formerly an entrance, now reduced); expressed timber lintel.

Interior

Five-bay interior with reused cruck blades forming pegged collar and tie-beam trusses, two of the tie beams cut and removed.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a good early C17 barn retaining reused cruck blades from an earlier structure and having good original character.

Part of a good farmstead group.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Former Stable Block at Gwern-y-braichdwr including adjoining Revetment Wall
Located a short distance to the E of the house, the revetment sweeping around in an arc to abut the house to the L of the facade.
II* Gwern-y-braichdwr
Located on the southern slope of the Cwm Main, at the eastern end; accessed via a track running from a lane itself running W from Glan-yr-Afon
II Ty tan-y-ffordd
The farmhouse is set back and below the road from Maerdy to Ty'n-y-bwlch, approximately 1600m S of Maerdy.
II Llwyn-dedwydd
A major farm of the area, located on the east facing slope of Pen-y-cerrig serth, looking down on the valley of Afon Ceirw. It is reached from the W valley road, SW of Glyn-dyffwys and W of Dinmael.

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Barn at Gwern-y-braichdwr

A Grade II Listed Building in Llandderfel, Gwynedd