Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Five bay Barn and attached Byre to far SW of Penhow Castle
Penhow, Newport, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 19 December 1995
- Locality
- Penhow Castle
- Community
- Penhow
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.61298, -2.83619
- Cadw reference
- 17080
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 S range of a group of farm buildings located at the W corner of the driveway leading to Penhow Castle, enclosing a cobbled yard on E side with low rubble wall with cock and hen coping.Castle from A48, Newport/Chepstow Road.
Exterior
Earlier C19 five bay barn of two storeys, constructed of random rubble with pantiled roof. Pair of full height timber doors in bay 3. Ventilation slot to ground floor of E end. Single storey cartshed at W end, also with pantiled roof. Stepped down to the E is a 3 bay, open fronted, gabled byre, open on the N side with wall plate supported on conical rubblestone piers. E gable with high set, rectangular opening with boarded shutter. Corrugated iron roof with lean-to front. Later opening at W end of S elevation.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Penhow Castle and its associated listed farm buildings.
Nearby in the register
- Stable Block to far SW of Penhow CastleDomesticunder 1 mi
- L-shaped Byre Range to far SW of Penhow CastleAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- L-shaped Byre Range to SW of Penhow CastleAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Barn to SW of Penhow CastleAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.