Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn at Lower Maestorglwydd
Llanigon, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 20 June 1995
- Locality
- Maestorglwydd
- Community
- Llanigon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.03000, -3.15307
- Cadw reference
- 16120
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
The barn stands within the group of farm buildings; if forms an L-shape with the listed cowshed and has a later single-storey stone shed against its N end.
Exterior
C16/17 barn. Walls mostly rebuilt in stone, neatly squared; an area on the W is of stone below corrugated-metal cladding. Roof of corrugated iron.
Interior
Corrugated iron on W conceals timber-framing, 2 heights square panels remain, replaced at base with stone, lacks wattle & daub; pair posts flanking entrance have square-cut jowls. Roof 5 bays, N one truncated, with tiebeam, collar & 3 tiers
heavy purlins.
Reason for designation
Important as an early barn of C16/17 date and included for group value with Lower
Maestorglwydd Farmhouse.
Nearby in the register
- Cowshed at Lower MaestorglwyddAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Wainhouse at Lower MaertorglwyddDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lower MaestorglwyddDomesticunder 1 mi
- Middle Maestorglwydd HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.