Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn at Glanyrafon Ddu Ganol NW of Farmhouse
Talley, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 1 March 1995
- Locality
- Halfway
- Community
- Talley
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.95925, -3.97648
- Cadw reference
- 15780
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 1860 "41. Caermathen." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Farm situated alongside the Halfway-Cwmdu by-road. The barn is immediately behind the farmhouse on the W side of the farmyard.
Exterior
Later C19 threshing-barn. Tall, rubble built. Slate roof, slated barges. 2 balancing tall entries, cambered heads; stone voussoirs. Boarded doors. Each door flanked by a short loop. Lean-to stone and timber shed to left, concealing 2 ground floor loops. Gable loop above. Similar loop arrangement to right gable. 2 lower doors to rear wall answering those to front, flat heads, stone voussoirs-both were blocked when extensions were made to the rear. Collarbeam roof.
Reason for designation
Group value with farmhouse and former farmhouse (cowshed) to SE.
Nearby in the register
- Glanyravon Ddu Ganol FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cowhouse to SE. of Glanyravon Ddu Ganol FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cwmdu Village HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box near Cwmdu Village HallCommunicationsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.