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Barn at Great Bottom Farm

Whitecastle, Monmouthshire, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Wernrheolydd, Raglan, Whitecastle, Monmouthshire, designated on 27 October 2000.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Barn at Great Bottom Farm, Whitecastle, Monmouthshire, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Listed building, Grade II
Broad class
No class recorded
Date of designation
27 October 2000
Locality
Wernrheolydd
Town
Raglan
Community
Whitecastle
Unitary authority
Monmouthshire
Country
Wales
Coordinates
51.81362, -2.87666
Cadw reference
24328

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV.Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. a. England ab sich: Shire:15-17, 33 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1896 · 233 Monmouth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Cadw's description

Location

To the NW of the farmhouse at Great Bottom Farm.

History

A medium-sized early C18 corn barn, with lofted cowhouse at one end, probably contemporary with the farmhouse at Great Bottom Farm.

Exterior

Rubble stone with slate roof and tile ridge. S front faces farmyard. Off-centre threshing floor has corrugated metal barn doors and raised door-canopy with monopitch roof. Side wall (left) has two vent slits, then corrugated double-doors, with boarded door to cowshed (far left). Side wall (right) has two vent slits, next a blocked doorway and then a boarded window with timber lintel to lofted stable. E gable has square doorway to upper pitching loft in gable-head, and boarded entrance door to stable on ground-floor.

Interior

Stone-flagged threshing floor. 7-bay interior has collar and tie beam trusses with raking queen struts.

Reason for designation

C18 corn barn included for group value with listed Farmhouse and Cider House, Cartshed and Stable Block at Great Bottom Farm, as part of a good farmstead group.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0
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