Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn at Park Farm
Guilsfield, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Groes-Lwyd, Guilsfield, Powys, designated on 22 February 1995.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 22 February 1995
- Locality
- Groes-Lwyd
- Community
- Guilsfield
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.69319, -3.18245
- Cadw reference
- 15808
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 151 Welshpool (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1916 · Sheet 60. Shrewsbury. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located 50m to the SW of Park Farmhouse.
History
Barn C15 or early C16, of four bays, the two NW bays being narrower, attached to other, later, farm buildings at the NW end. The barn probably constituted the original house, which was replaced in the C17 by the present farmhouse.
Exterior
Brick and weatherboarding with slate roof, and new entry at south gable end.
Interior
Four pairs of heavy cruck blades in matching pairs, erected from the N end on timber sills, and trenched for 2 tiers of purlins. Each pair has low tie beam and framing to the collar, with raking struts near the apex, but third couple seems to have had large curving struts from the tie to the upper section of the blades. Apex joined by a yoke, set slightly lower, and carrying a ridge piece set diagonally. Mortices on shoulders for timber horizontal rail of the original wall. Inset apex may have been a smoke louvre. 'Dais' partition is square framed with a single door.
Reason for designation
Included as an important medieval domestic survival which has been downgraded to serve as a barn.
Nearby in the register
- Park FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- North Moel-Y-Garth FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Fron-y-FeleDomesticunder 1 mi
- Entrance Range of service outbuildings at Trawscoed HallDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.