Field Barn at Llanfair Farm, Y Felinheli, Gwynedd

Coordinates

Latitude: 53.1707 / 53°10'14"N

Longitude: -4.2345 / 4°14'4"W

OS Eastings: 250735

OS Northings: 366067

OS Grid: SH507660

Mapcode National: GBR 5K.49TK

Mapcode Global: WH437.XKQL

Plus Code: 9C5Q5QC8+75

Entry Name: Field Barn at Llanfair Farm

Listing Date: 29 May 1968

Last Amended: 18 April 1997

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 18337

Building Class: Agriculture and Subsistence

ID on this website: 300018337

Location: Situated on the summit of a knoll some 300m SW of Llanfair Hall and some 600m E of the Church of Saint Mary at Llanfair-is-gaer.

County: Gwynedd

Town: Caernarvon

Community: Y Felinheli

Locality: Llanfair-is-gaer

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

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History

C17 field barn with front wall probably rebuilt in C18. Part of the Llanfair estate owned by the Griffith family from the C16. End gable incorporates a fine C14 traceried window assumed to come from Llanfair-Isgaer church, as the tracery matches carved detail on the font. John Griffith of Llanfair is known to have restored the church in the early C19.

Exterior

Shaped coursed rubble stone to front, rough rubble elsewhere. Slate roof with rough stone coping to gables. Some 13.7m by 6.8m aligned NE to SW. The SE wall is said to be thinner than the others and to be of C18 origin. It has a central cambered-arched door with stone voussoirs (now blocked) and two ventilating slits each side. The other walls are thicker, the NW side having a lower central door and two rows of ventilation slits. The SW end is blank. NE end has an inserted C14 window high in the gable. This single wide light has pointed head and blank tracery of ogee flowing type, found in Anglesey and also on the font in Llanfair Isgaer church.

Interior

Not inspected. The roof is said to be of four bays, two central trusses of C17 type with mortices for removed collars, the outer ones with applied collars probably C18.

Reasons for Listing

A fine field barn of early date, incorporating a re-used medieval window.

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Field Barn at Llanfair Farm

A Grade II Listed Building in Y Felinheli, Gwynedd