Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn at Y Fro
The Vale of Grwyney, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Fro, The Vale of Grwyney, Powys, designated on 19 November 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 19 November 1998
- Locality
- Fro
- Community
- The Vale of Grwyney
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.86980, -3.11785
- Cadw reference
- 20844
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 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 232 Abergavenny (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 232 Abergavenny (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On NE side of house, which is situated approximately 1.1km SW of Llanbedr.
History
A late C17 or early C18 barn.
Exterior
Rubble stone barn built on a sloping site, with battered walls and roof of concrete pantiles. The front has a central wagon bay doorway with double boarded doors, a timber lintel and wooden brackets of a former canopy. The doorway is flanked by 3 stepped ventilation slits. The R gable end has 2 tiers of 3 ventilation slits and a loft opening (now glazed) under a drip stone. The L gable end has a single tier of 3 ventilation slits, a boarded loft opening and a triangular breather below the apex. To the rear is a central lean-to with a single-storey projection to R.
Interior
Not inspected at time of survey (December 1997).
Reason for designation
Included for group value with the house as a good early barn.
Nearby in the register
- Y FroDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ty LlangennyDomesticunder 1 mi
- Byre and Cart Shed at Ty LlangennyAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Moor ParkDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.