Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Shelter Shed at Lower 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
- 51.90010, -2.82179
- Cadw reference
- 24153
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 at the end of a long farm track which leads N off the minor road to Norton, some 3 km SW of Grosmont village. Standing about 100m SE of Lower Dyffryn Farmhouse.
History
C19 shelter shed.
Exterior
Rubble stone, slate roof. Open-fronted C19 shelter shed. Wall plate supported on three round tapering stone pillars (S pillar replaced by timber post in C20). Rear wall is blind.
Reason for designation
Unusually designed C19 shelter shed having group value with house and listed farm buildings at Lower Dyffryn.
Nearby in the register
- Hay Barn, attached Corn Barns, and Pigsty at Lower DyffrynAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Lower Dyffryn HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Granary and Cider House at Lower DyffrynAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Walls to Terraced Garden at Lower DyffrynGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.