Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn at Race Farm
New Inn, Torfaen, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 7 August 1997
- Locality
- Race Farm
- Town
- Pontypool
- Community
- New Inn
- Unitary authority
- Torfaen
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.67124, -3.00576
- Cadw reference
- 18741
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
About 60m south west of Race Farmhouse.
History
A late C18 or early C19 hay or threshing barn.
Exterior
Stone rubble walls with a stone tile roof on the front slope and asbestos slates on the rear. Plain front with vertical ventilating slit in the wall to either side of the central projecting gabled porch. This has a timber framed gable infilled with red brick and the original double plank doors. The building is unchanged externally apart from the recladding of the rear roof slope.
Interior
Hay or threshing barn with a central midstrey. Principal rafter roof with ties and collars; at least one tie is a reused C17 house beam with hollow chamfer and run out stops. The principals are halved and pegged at the apex and there are three tiers of through purlins. The main members are hand sawn.
Reason for designation
A virtually unaltered barn dating probably from the late C18 or early C19 and for group value with Race Farmhouse.
Nearby in the register
- Race FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pontrhydyrun HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Enclosure railings, walls, gatepiers and Memorials at the Conway Burial YardNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Pontrhydyrun Baptist ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.