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Barn at Upper Lamphey Barn
Lamphey, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 28 February 1995
- Locality
- Lamphey Park
- Community
- Lamphey
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.67591, -4.85774
- Cadw reference
- 15664
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
About 500m S of Deerpark Lane, at NW end of farm complex; barn abuts medieval buildings to N
History
Threshing barn adapted to corn store; early C19 with later alterations. Possibly built for Charles Matthias following purchase of the estate in 1821.
Exterior
Rectangular barn with elaborate semi-hexagonal S end. Rubble limestone with brick dressings, corrugated roof covering. W wall has doorway and rectangular window at ground floor and pitching doorway at first floor from SW corner where there is a blocked doorway. Windows with flat brick arches (partly blocked in hexagonal sides by staircase and cow house. 2 rectangular recesses at base of staircase possibly goose pens/kennels. E wall has large double doorway behind later lean-to with 2 wooden framed windows above.
Interior
Interior damaged by fire C20; fireplace knocked into flue of medieval buildings to N end, and a fire place in E wall contains a disused modern corn bin and drying equipment.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with adjacent medieval building.
Nearby in the register
- Four Mediaeval House at Upper Lamphey Park FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bishop's Palace, LampheyPalaceunder 1 mi
- Lamphey Bishop's PalaceReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Lamphey CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.