Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn range at Castle Farm
Talybont-on-Usk, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 17 January 1963
- Locality
- Pencelli
- Community
- Talybont-on-Usk
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.91524, -3.31724
- Cadw reference
- 21164
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Forming the SE side of the courtyard at Castle Farm, opposite the house.
History
Part of the complex of buildings within the medieval castle enclosure, though no early fabric readily recognizable. Pencelli castle is documented from 1215. House is dated 1583 and was remodelled in C18 to create a Georgian frontage and further refurbished early C20. Barn range probably mostly dates from C18 - early C19.
Exterior
A long range comprising barn and cartshed to right and lower 2 bay unit left. Built of stone rubble with Welsh slate roof. Barn has double doors, renewed, single row of 2 ventilation slits to left, one to right. To right 4 segmental arched cartshed bays with voussoirs, narrow imposts and keystones; loft opening above; gable end has pitching door. To left a boarded door to first floor loft; ground floor has a pair of boarded doors with deep stone lintels and 2 windows with hoppers; 2 storey lean-to to left gable end. This range faces the main house, the space between the two forming an entrance courtyard.
Interior
Cartshed has cross beam and joist ceiling and stairs to rear; square recesses in end rear wall.
Reason for designation
Listed as an imposing C18-C19 farm range and for group value with the house and other listed buildings at Castle Farm.
Nearby in the register
- Granary at Castle FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Castle Farm farmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Courtyard range immediately SW of Castle FarmhouseDefenceunder 1 mi
- Castle Bridge (Canal Bridge No. 152)Transportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.