Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Field barn near Cockit Hill
Llangors, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Cockit Hill, Llangors, Powys, designated on 21 August 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 21 August 1998
- Locality
- Cockit Hill
- Community
- Llangors
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94799, -3.22789
- Cadw reference
- 20319
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · 214 Talgarth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Just W of the high road running below Mynydd Troed near the boundary with the open mountain E of Llanbeilin and N of Cockit.
History
Late C17/early C18.
Exterior
Field barn set into the slope, aligned roughly E/ W. Of stone rubble with corrugated roof. Triangular ventilation holes in gable end, small slits to sides, opposing double doors. Very slightly battered at gable end.
Interior
Pegged collar and tie trusses and 3 rows of trenched purlins.
Reason for designation
Included as a rare surviving regional example of a C17/C18 field barn.
Nearby in the register
- Mynydd Troed Long BarrowLong Barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosure on Cockit HillHillfortunder 1 mi
- Byre at Upper PenllanafalAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Barn at Upper PenllanafalAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.