Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pentre Farm Byre and Cart Shed
Forden with Leighton and Trelystan, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Leighton, Forden, Forden with Leighton and Trelystan, Powys, designated on 20 March 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 20 March 1998
- Locality
- Leighton
- Town
- Forden
- Community
- Forden with Leighton and Trelystan
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.64692, -3.11364
- Cadw reference
- 19499
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 151 Welshpool (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1916 · Sheet 60. Shrewsbury. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located approximately 0.5km E of Leighton church on N side of a minor road between Leighton and Trelystan. On NW side of Pentre Farm with farmyard on S side and farm buildings to N and house to SE.
Exterior
C18 timber-framed byre and cart shed with brick nogging on a rubble stone plinth, and with random rubble outer bays, slate roof. The front faces a yard to the E and has a centrally-placed boarded door and 4 boarded loft openings in the upper storey. In the bay to R is a boarded door. To L is a C20 open-sided brick lean-to inside which is a cart shed door. The rear is partly weather-boarded, has an opening to cart shed to R and a corrugated iron lean-to.
Interior
Not inspected (December 1996).
Reason for designation
An C18 agricultural building retaining much of its early character which forms part of a group with Pentre Farm.
Nearby in the register
- Pentre FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
- Offa's Dyke: Section at Pentre FarmLinear Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Offa's Dyke: Pentre SectionLinear Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Pentre HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.