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Cowhouse and Stables at Pen-y-llyn

A Grade II Listed Building in Llandygai, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.1722 / 53°10'19"N

Longitude: -4.0871 / 4°5'13"W

OS Eastings: 260595

OS Northings: 365930

OS Grid: SH605659

Mapcode National: GBR 5R.43NN

Mapcode Global: WH54G.6J1H

Plus Code: 9C5Q5WC7+V5

Entry Name: Cowhouse and Stables at Pen-y-llyn

Listing Date: 24 May 2000

Last Amended: 24 May 2000

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 23350

Building Class: Agriculture and Subsistence

ID on this website: 300023350

Location: Situated immediately to the west of the cottage at Pen-y-llyn.

County: Gwynedd

Community: Llandygai (Llandygái)

Community: Llandygai

Locality: Ynys

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

Tagged with: Stable

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History

Contemporary with the cottage at the smallholding.

Exterior

2 rectangular plan buildings, each aligned north-south; that to east is larger and built as cowhouse, that to west smaller and used as stables. Both of roughly coursed rubblestone with quoins; slate roofs, each with slate slab coping to south gable end. Cowhouse has boarded door in west wall and hay-loft opening above doorway in north gable end; stables has doorway in east wall; south gable end of each building without openings. C20 outbuilding attached to north gable end of stables.

Interior

Interior not accessible at time of Survey.

Reasons for Listing

Included as the farmbuildings of mid-C19 quarryman's smallholding; both essentially unaltered and an integral part of this unspoilt group.

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