Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn, Byre and Stable at The Darren
The Vale of Grwyney, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Grwyne Fechan, 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
- Grwyne Fechan
- Community
- The Vale of Grwyney
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.91860, -3.12632
- Cadw reference
- 20860
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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)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (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
On N side of house.
History
C18 and contemporary with the farmhouse.
Exterior
Built on a sloping site with stable and byre at uphill end and the barn stepped down at the downhill end. Of random rubble with openings under timber lintels, and corrugated asbestos-cement roof. The stable is at the uphill end and has a stable door with a window (boarded up) to its L. The byre is R of the stable, and has 3 doorways and a loft opening above the central door. The barn has a cart-passage doorway offset to L with double boarded doors and a ventilation slit to L. Lately added lean-to against R gable end. The L gable end has a loft opening to the stable with a boarded shutter. Added outshuts are to the rear.
Interior
Not inspected at time of survey (January 1998).
Reason for designation
Included together with the farm building for the historic character of this farm group of C18 origin.
Nearby in the register
- The DarrenDomesticunder 1 mi
- Kidney-shaped enclosure 1km SE of Pen Allt-Mawr, Cwm BanwEnclosure - Agriculturalunder 1 mi
- The Old ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
- Bipartite enclosure 1km SSE of Pen Allt-Mawr, Cwm BanwEnclosure - Agricultural1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.