Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn at Wern Tarw
Coychurch Higher, Bridgend, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 13 November 1997
- Locality
- Wern Tarw
- Community
- Coychurch Higher
- Unitary authority
- Bridgend
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.54974, -3.50056
- Cadw reference
- 19050
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 at right angles to a narrow lane at the base of the foothills of the Mynydd y Gaer. The associated farmhouse is to the S.
History
A small stone above the front entrance carries an engraved date of 1804. The layout, with its aligned front and rear entrances, is typical of a C18 - early C19 barn used for storing and threshing corn.
Exterior
Barn with centrally-placed doorways to front and rear. Random rubble with stone dressings, under a stone-tiled roof, except for one small section of corrugated asbestos-cement. The wide doorways are under segmental arches with voussoirs. They are flanked by ventilation slits. The front (E) doorway contains C20 planked double doors. The ventilation slit to the R is blocked. To the rear is an added lean-to porch with a corrugated asbestos-cement roof. The doorway has planked doors. The S and N gable ends each have a ventilation slit in the gable and a second blocked slit below.
Interior
Five-bay interior with simple king-post roof. The barn is now used as a sheep pen.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well preserved and large corn barn reflecting the end of the period before the mechanisation of agriculture. Group value with the farmhouse and cowhouse to the S.
Nearby in the register
- Wern Tarw and attached CowhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Zoar Chapel VestryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Zoar ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Mynydd y GaerHillfortunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.