Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn Range at Troedyrhiw
Cynwyl Gaeo, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 2 August 1995
- Locality
- Hafod Bridge
- Community
- Cynwyl Gaeo
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.01222, -3.91570
- Cadw reference
- 16250
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 at end of long track off A482, 1 km N of Hafod Bridge. Barn to SW of farmhouse beyond cowshed.
History
Early/mid C18 barn-range of scarfed-cruck construction. Clearly shown on 1830 O.S map. 1841 owner, David Arthur Saunders Davies; occupier, Mary Edwards. [The farmhouse has been much modernised, but was apparently also of scarfed-cruck construction.]
Exterior: Whitewashed rubble high-door barn-range on downslope site. Corrugated-iron roof, wooden soffits. Wide door to left, corrugated-iron sheeted doors, concrete lintel. Boarded door to right, timber lintel. Rear with window to left rising to soffit, small window below to right with timber lintel. Low barn door to right, timber lintel; paired planked doors.
Exterior
Small later rubble extension to left with half-hipped slate roof. Divided boarded door with timber lintel, similar head to small window above.
Small rubble addition to right with hipped slate roof; wide opening with timber lintel, corrugated-iron doors. Slatted window above to gable of barn.
Interior
Roof structure consists of five pairs of scarfed crucks with pegged collars (missing to centre pair) and yoked apexes. Rough purlins on cleats. The soffits of the crucks are chamfered. The left gable is half-timbered within with crude cupped vertical posts supporting the ridge and upper purlins. Underthatch of split palings, some thatch survives.
Reason for designation
Listed as an extremely rare example of a scarfed-cruck barn in the area.
Nearby in the register
- Former Cow-House at TroedyrhiwAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Lletty UchafDomesticunder 1 mi
- Byre attached to Ty'n CoedAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Ty'n CoedDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.