Home Farm Barns

Cadw's description

Location

150m west of Home Farmhouse at the west side of the junction of the minor road from Penrice church to the A4118, standing within a prominent group of agricultural buildings.

History

U-plan agriculturalranges, the west range predating the south range; both probably late C18. It appears to be marked on the 1813 map. East range is later as not shown on 1813 map.

Exterior

The west range is a livestock shed with a storage loft. Axe-dressed sandstone masonry, slate roof with tile ridge. The main part of the range (to south) is in eight structural bays, with its original queen-post trusses. To the front (facing the yard) there are four altered loft windows in a group to the left; below there is an altered window with an opening beneath, a wide entrance with a rough timber lintel, an altered square window. The north end is a bull-pen of four structural bays with modern trusses, its loft floor missing. Its entrance and a window under a shared lintel stand within an old brick-arched cartshed opening, the arch remaining as a common relieving arch. To the rear of this range there are two square loft hatches. The south range is at the same eaves height but with a higher roof apex, and consists of a livestock shed with loft nearest the junction to the older part, plus a barn and an additional storage building functioning as an annex to the barn with a slightly lower roof. Similar masonry and roofing. The livestock shed is of three bays with queen-post trusses, its loft floor missing; central wide entrance facing north to the yard with two square windows above and two below. The barn, at the centre of the range, has opposed full-height great openings with brick segmental arches. The doors are missing. To the west of this on the yard side are two openings with segmental heads and honeycomb brick infill. The additional storage building, at the east end of the range, is partly obscured on the north side by later roadside sheds, but hidden by these there are two segmental headed openings one above the other, the upper with honeycomb brickwork infill. To the rear of this range there is recent shedding concealing some irregular openings and the south great door of the barn. In the extension part of the barn there is a lean-to stone shed, wide doorways one above the other, and a reduced cartshed opening beneath a brick relieving arch to the right.
The gable end facing the road has four slit ventilators. The opposite end is hipped where its roof rises above that of the earlier range.
The east range completes the U-plan and is a long, single-storey cow house backing on to Penrice Road and with a short return adjoining the yard entrance on the main road. Rubble walls, brick dressings and modern corrugated metal roofs. Three 3-light metal windows and one sliding door. Hipped end to short return on main road with broad segmented arch facing yard entry.

Reason for designation

A fine C18 or early C19 barn including the agricultural ranges to which it was added, constituting the principal unit of a good group of agricultural buildings at a prominent road junction.