Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn at Pant-y-gored
Pentyrch, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 31 January 2000
- Locality
- Creigiau
- Community
- Pentyrch
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.52113, -3.31221
- Cadw reference
- 22831
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
At right angles to the farmhouse and attached range and forming the W side of the main farmyard.
History
Probably C18 with later alterations.
Exterior
Barn built into the hillside with gable ends therefore at different heights. Of rubble stone with Welsh slate roof and brick dressings. Barn has been altered to provide wide loft openings on main frontage and cambered arched doorway appears to have been raised; lower ventilation slits retained. Further signs of rebuilding/extension/ strengthening. To rear are loft steps parallel to range with pigeon-holes adjacent and stepped down lean-to; cambered brick main arch; end left, now sheltered by later barn extension, has two cart shed bays comprising wide cambered brick arches with keystones and brick and stone piers
Interior
Barn interior of 4 bays with king post roof.
Reason for designation
Included for its character as a regional barn and for group value with farmhouse.
Nearby in the register
- Pant-y-gored including attached byre range to rightDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lodge at Craig-y-parcDomesticunder 1 mi
- Walls and gatepiers to courtyard entrance at Craig-y-parcGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Craig-y-parc HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.