Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn range at Maes Mawr
Talybont-on-Usk, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Talybont on Usk, Powys, designated on 17 December 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 17 December 1998
- Locality
- Talybont on Usk
- Community
- Talybont-on-Usk
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.89510, -3.28337
- Cadw reference
- 21175
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)
- 1896 · 214 Talgarth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the opposite side of the lane from Maes Mawr farmhouse, reached off B4558.
History
Long barn range shown on tithe map of 1841, NE wing added later. Possibly associated with C17 enlargement of the house.
Exterior
Long barn range of stone rubble with corrugated roof. Main barn with deep two storey hipped roof porch to front; front extension to right under catslide roof; to left smaller extension leaving 2 rows of ventilation slits of the barn visible. Long cross wing to N with stone base, boarded on a timber frame above. Attached to left, sharing the same ridge but with a different pitch, a 2 storey range probably a byre with loft above; segmental arched openings to two floors and ventilation slits; widened entrance end left. To rear the barn shows signs of alteration including a blocked door opposite the main porch; loft openings under eaves, a few ventilation slits; unused lower double doors to right. Attached left (S) is a lower bayed range, altered and now incorporated into a large cattle shed with corrugated roof, the gable end return onto the lane with a pitching eye and doorway. Farmyard bounded by a rubble wall to lane.
Interior
Interior not inspected at the time of survey (30th September 1997).
Reason for designation
Listed as an unusually large barn range associated with this important sub-medieval gentry house.
Nearby in the register
- Maes MawrDomesticunder 1 mi
- BrynhyfrydDomesticunder 1 mi
- Limekilns at BrynhyfrydIndustrialunder 1 mi
- GlynderiDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.