Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
SE range of farm court at Monachty
Dyffryn Arth, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 23 May 1996
- Locality
- Monachty/Mynachdy
- Community
- Dyffryn Arth
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.23613, -4.19081
- Cadw reference
- 17491
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated at SE corner of farmyard with openings to farmyard to N and service drive to S.
Exterior
History: Later C19 farm-building, apparently for loose-boxes, milking and calving-pens.
Exterior: Rubble stone with broad slate roof, overhanging at W end. Large single-storey, eight bays. S front has casement, door, casement pair, door, door, casement pair and two small cambered-headed iron ventilator lights. Doors have overlights, windows have boarded shutters. Stone voussoirs. W end has centre similar door with window to right. E end has one window to road. N front, to yard, is of different stone, seven bays, doors and windows in sequence WWDWDWD, stone voussoirs.
Interior: A high 7-bay roof with king-post and queen strut tie-beam trusses, subdivided by stone walls up to tie-beam level. One large room at E with grooved brick floors and two-rows of ties, possibly for milking, the rest divided by spine wall into spaces N and S. S has centre room with flat tiles to floor and SW room further divided by plank partition. N has long centre stable with loose boxes each side of passage. NW room has cobbled floor.
An unusual Victorian farm-building remarkable for integrated management of milking and calving. Group value with the rest of the exceptional farmyard buildings at Monachty.
Nearby in the register
- E range of farmyard at MonachtyAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Covered Dung-pit in Monachty FarmyardAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding on S side of farmyard at MonachtyAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Service Range to NE of MonachtyAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.