Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn at Upper Dyffryn
Grosmont, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 19 October 2000
- Locality
- The Dyffryn
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Community
- Grosmont
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.90599, -2.84162
- Cadw reference
- 24149
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
Located some 30m SE of Upper Dyffryn Farmhouse which is located on N side of the minor road to Norton, approximately 2 km SW of Grosmont.
History
A large corn barn and stable, probably dating from early C19.
Exterior
Large C19 barn with lofted stable at NW end. Rubble stone, corrugated metal roof. SW elevation faces road with opposing doorways to threshing floor off-centre to right. Corrugated metal barn doors. Walls on each side of barn doors have ventilation slits, one at ground and one at upper level. Long wall of barn (to left) has square doorway to pitching loft; boarded door with strap hinges. NE elevation faces into farmyard, threshing floor has vent slits on each side as before; to right stable has slatted window with segmental arched head. NW gable has vent slit in gable head and ground floor stable doorway with segmental arch of stone voussoirs; boarded half doors with strap hinges. SE gable has upper pitching loft doorway with segmental arched head; below centre wall has single vent slit at upper and ground levels.
Interior
Barn of 5 bays with collar trusses; two tiers of purlins.
Reason for designation
Group value with farmhouse and dairy at Upper Dyffryn.
Nearby in the register
- Upper Dyffryn HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Detached Kitchen and Dairy at Upper DyffrynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Walls to Terraced Garden at Lower DyffrynGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Barns FarmhouseNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.