Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn Cottage
Glasbury, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 18 January 1996
- Locality
- Llowes
- Community
- Glasbury
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.06752, -3.18083
- Cadw reference
- 17212
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 in Llowes village, above Albert Cottages and opposite the turn to Llowes mill, set parallel to the road.
Exterior
Cottage, early C19, rubble stonework, once whitewashed, with a stone slate roof. Two bays, comprising a living room with an external gable stack, and service room at the N end. Central boarded door and timber 4-pane casement windows, all with timber lintels. Added lean-to at uphill end with boarded door and corrugated asbestos roof, slightly set back, containing storeroom. To rear, one small window to upper end room.
Interior
Matchboarded draught screen protecting the living room from the door.
Reason for designation
Included as a representative and largely unaltered example of a farm workers cottage of the early C19.
Nearby in the register
- 2 Albert TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 3 Albert TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 1 Albert TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former MillIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.