Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn on Ewenny Down
Ewenny, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 3 March 1998
- Locality
- Ewenny
- Community
- Ewenny
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.47366, -3.57057
- Cadw reference
- 19456
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
Near the crest of Ewenny Down, S of Ewenny village and E of Cwm Alun.
History
Date c 1780. Believed to have been built as a corn barn and formerly thatched. N/S alignment characteristic of Vale of Glamorgan. Converted to feed store probably in C19 and some openings blocked. Currently used as animal shelter.
Exterior
Small rectangular 5 bay barn. Of stone rubble with dressed stone quoins and voussoirs, remains of lime render; asbestos roof. High on S gable a blocked opening; a second opening remodelled to N with concrete lintel, low doorway NE. Opposing doorways E and W, part blocked to W, have segmental arched voussoirs and timber lintels, boarded doors E; ventilation slits on long walls also blocked to W. Formerly part of a small group of farm buildings with walled enclosure to W.
Interior
Dwarf walls on either side of opposing doorways indicate former threshing area; earth floor throughout. Wall plaster consistent with use for corn. Simple roof trusses comprising principal rafters and collar and two rows of trenched purlins, reinforced.
Reason for designation
Included as a mainly intact Vale of Glamorgan C18 field barn for storing corn.
Nearby in the register
- Stepsau DuonStepping Stonesunder 1 mi
- Barn and attached ranges at Wallas FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Clapper BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Top LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.