Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn at Henbant Fach
The Vale of Grwyney, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Henbant, 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
- Henbant
- Community
- The Vale of Grwyney
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.88044, -3.09910
- Cadw reference
- 20864
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)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On E side of the house.
History
Probably early C17 and contemporary with the addition of the fireplace and upper storey to the house.
Exterior
On a steeply sloping site with the N gable end built into the bank. The walls are rubble sandstone, with timber framing below the eaves clad in weatherboarding, and with a wide batter at the downhill end. The roof is concrete pantiles. The front has central boarded doors to the wagon bay, and lower L is a boarded door to a former stable beneath the barn floor. To the rear are external stone stairs (the lower steps replaced in concrete) to a central doorway with a stop-chamfer wooden frame.
Interior
Not inspected at time of survey (January 1998), but recorded by Smith and Jones as retaining 3 pairs of upper crucks.
Reason for designation
Listed as an early Breconshire farm building and for group value with the house.
Nearby in the register
- Henbant FachDomesticunder 1 mi
- Henbant FawrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Byre at Henbant FawrAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Barn and Former Bakehouse at Henbant FawrAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.