Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pen-Twyn including attached Barn
Talgarth, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Genffordd, Talgarth, Powys, designated on 14 August 1995.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 14 August 1995
- Locality
- Genffordd
- Community
- Talgarth
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.97337, -3.21193
- Cadw reference
- 16300
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · 214 Talgarth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located on the minor lane leading off the upper road from Talgarth to Pengenffordd in the direction of Rh_s.
History
Farmhouse and attached farm buildings of c1700, modernised probably in early C19 and raised from 1+ storeys to 2 storeys. Longhouse derived type B plan with original cross passage behind stack, hall and inner room. Added kitchen-dairy on rear. Beyond the cross passage, 3-bay farm building, extended forward under extension of roof.
Exterior
Colourwashed rubble stonework with stone slate roof to the barn and slate roof to the farmhouse. Central part-glazed door under gabled canopy. Two light C19 windows. Door to passage, and large cart doors to farm building, to left of which is extended in rubble, to provide lean-to with one front and one end door.
Barn is of 3 bays, with cart doors front and back in bay nearest the house, and has triangular vents in gable end and to rear.
Interior
Entry originally at side of stack from cross passage. Hall has chamfered beams to cross beam, probably the position of the post and panel partition which has been moved back, perhaps when stack rebuilt. Inner room elevated by 1 step. Added rear kitchen has gable stack with side bread oven, and blocked window on NE side with seats in the splayed reveals.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as retaining the well-preserved character of a c1700 Breconshire farmhouse.
Nearby in the register
- Middle GenfforddDomesticunder 1 mi
- Detached Farm Building at GwrloddeAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Old Farmhouse at GwrloddeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn at Gwrlodde adjoining Old Farmhouse at GwrloddeAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.