Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Old Beaupre Barn
Llanfair, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 22 September 1995
- Locality
- Old Beaupre
- Community
- Llanfair
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.43782, -3.42686
- Cadw reference
- 16417
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
Located to the SE of Old Beaupre Castle, within a field approximately 100m S of the farmhouse, aligned on a NE/SW axis.
History
C16 barn formerly serving the farm at Old Beaupre. Old Beaupre Castle is a substantial fortified manor house dating from the C14 to the early C17, now primarily a roofless ruin in the care of Cadw. The Bassett family occupied the site from the first recorded references in 1262.. The manor was sold in 1709.
Exterior
Roofless 5-bay barn of c1500. Coursed rubble elevations with batter to base of walls. Two asymmetrically placed doorways on the E and W elevations with two-centred arches of dressed sutton stone with relieving arches behind. To N and S gables high set ventilation openings with splayed loop on interior.
Reason for designation
Listed grade II as a surviving sub-medieval ancillary farm building of group value with Old Beaupre Castle complex.
Scheduled Ancient Monument No. GM1 (part)
Nearby in the register
- Former Hall Range to S of Old Beaupre CastleDomesticunder 1 mi
- Old Beaupre FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Old Beaupre CastleDomesticunder 1 mi
- Old Beaupre CastleHouse (domestic)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.