Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn at Rhyswg Fawr
Abercarn, Caerphilly, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 17 December 1998
- Locality
- Rhyswg
- Community
- Abercarn
- Unitary authority
- Caerphilly
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.64466, -3.11888
- Cadw reference
- 20998
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Close to and on the same axis as the farmhouse but separated from it by a deep well; set into the slope a little downhill.
History
Building formerly used as a dwelling. Barn section housed a corn rick with byre adjacent.
Exterior
A long barn of rubble formerly limewashed with stone slate roof. In two units the left probably older. At left the higher ground at gable end allows for a loft level entrance at gable end with 6 pane window beside; to front elevation similar windows flank a doorway, dormer to rear. At lower end to right a barn unit with double doors and added lean-to.
Reason for designation
Included as a large barn of regional character retaining its stone tiled roof and for group value with Rhyswg Fawr Farmhouse.
Nearby in the register
- Rhyswg Fawr Farmhouse and walled forecourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- English Baptist Church and walled forecourtReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- English Baptist Church Sunday SchoolReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Welsh Presbyterian ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.