Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn at Cilpyll Farm
Nantcwnlle, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 26 November 1996
- Locality
- Nantcwnlle
- Town
- Lampeter
- Community
- Nantcwnlle
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.21012, -4.05364
- Cadw reference
- 17795
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 on W side of farmyard at Cilpyll Farm, the gable end above the entrance drive.
History
Later C18 barn range, presumably built shortly after Cilpyll, which is dated 1768.
Exterior
Whitewashed rubble stone with slate roof. Long range with lofted cart-shed and stable to right and barn to left. Right section (from right) has ledged door with stone voussoirs, then broad elliptical arched cart-entry with stone voussoirs, blocked for window and, to left outside stone steps to loft door. Barn to left has tall barn doors, the arch renewed in C19 yellow brick, probably originally timber. Two vent loops to left. At left angle is lean-to addition projecting slightly S with roof then monopitch. Open N end. Corrugated iron roof. S gable end has two loops and apex small lunette with stone voussoirs. Rear has two loops to right and tall barn doors.
Interior
Barn has five bay roof with oak tie-beam trusses and thin angle struts, except third truss where tie is raised as a collar-beam. Blocked loft entry on right end wall. Right section has cobbled floor to cart-house.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good C18 farm range of the scale found only in the gentry-owned farms of the area. Group value with Cilpyll Farmhouse.
Nearby in the register
- Cilpyll FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Felin FachIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Tanrallt UchafDomesticunder 1 mi
- GlanmarchDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.