Slate Fencing at Bwthyn Cochwillan, Llanllechid, Gwynedd

Coordinates

Latitude: 53.2039 / 53°12'14"N

Longitude: -4.0875 / 4°5'15"W

OS Eastings: 260669

OS Northings: 369463

OS Grid: SH606694

Mapcode National: GBR 5R.23KB

Mapcode Global: WH548.5QTN

Plus Code: 9C5Q6W36+HX

Entry Name: Slate Fencing at Bwthyn Cochwillan

Listing Date: 9 March 2000

Last Amended: 9 March 2000

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 22961

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300022961

Location: Defines the northern boundary of Bwthyn Cochwillan.

County: Gwynedd

Community: Llanllechid

Locality: Cochwillan

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

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History

Apparently contemporary with Bwthyn Cochwillan. The slate fencing is of the type noted in 1798 on the Penrhyn estates by the Revd. W Bingley as being entirely new to him: "the fences were made with pieces of blue slate...driven into the ground about a foot distant from each other, and interwoven near the top with briars, or any kind of flexible branches to hold them together". Bingley also observed that "in point of ornament" they were "sufficiently neat".

Exterior

Slate fencing consisting of thin vertical slabs set into ground and linked by horizontal wire; iron gate in fence approached by large slate slab laid as footbridge over small stream running along boundary.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a regionally characteristic traditional fencing type, defining the northern boundary of Bwthyn Cochwillan and thus forming a distinctive component of its historic setting.

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II Fferm Cochwillan
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II Cowhouses/Cart Shelter at Fferm Cochwillan
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II Pigsties at Bwthyn Cochwillan
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II Pigsties/Pig Kitchen at Fferm Cochwillan
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I Cochwillan
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Slate Fencing at Bwthyn Cochwillan

A Grade II Listed Building in Llanllechid, Gwynedd