Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Stable Range at Cwm Bwchel Farm
Crucorney, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 7 August 1995
- Locality
- Llanthony
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Community
- Crucorney
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94050, -3.04341
- Cadw reference
- 16280
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
Opposite and slightly below the farmhouse.
History
A late C17 stable range, probably contemporary with the dated 1694 refurbishment of the farmhouse.
Exterior
Roughly coursed red sandstone rubble with a corrugated sheet metal roof. Two storeys, with a cill course between storeys, steeply-pitched roof. On ground floor, three doorways, left and centre have heavy chamfered frames, to left and right, doorways have old boarded doors with strap hinges. Upper floor has two windows; right window has oak diamond mullions, larger central window. Window to left gable below which is (modern) lean-to. To right, later addition, probably mid C19, with door and small window.
Interior
Interior of main block has massive roughly-chamfered transverse beams supporting loft; two pegged principal rafter trusses one with collar and tie, one with collar only, three tiers of purlins, but probably reroofed.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well preserved C17 farm building having group value with other listed buildings at Cwm Buchel farm.
Nearby in the register
- Former External Kitchen at Cwm Bwchel FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cwm Bwchel FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn at Cwm Bwchel FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cottage 40m south of turning to Llanthony PrioryDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.