Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn at Greenmeadow Farm
Goetre Fawr, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 18 July 2001
- Locality
- Mamhilad
- Town
- Pontypool
- Community
- Goetre Fawr
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.73360, -3.01482
- Cadw reference
- 25565
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
About 50m north east of Greenmeadow Farmhouse.
History
A barn built in 1761 probably by William Morgan of Mamhilad House (qv) whose memorial in the chancel of the Church of St. Illtydd (qv) records his death in 1772. The barn has apparently been unaltered since building.
Exterior
Large threshing barn constructed of local purple random sandstone rubble with a Welsh slate roof. The south elevation is masked by trees but it has slit vents in two tiers on either side of the cart doors which have been replaced with corrugated steel sheeting. Above this is a small plaque inscribed WWM 1761. The yard elevation has four slit vents to the left of the cart doors and two vents over the cowhouse door to the right. Slit vents also in the gable ends.
Interior
The interior has a five bay roof with four triangular trusses with ashlar pieces, three tiers of purlins, ridge piece and secondary rafters all complete. The timber hayloft floor also survives complete together with the cowhouse below.
Reason for designation
Included as an unaltered barn dating from 1761 which has strong group value with the adjacent Greenmeadow Farmhouse.
Nearby in the register
- Greenmeadow FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Mamhilad House FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bridge No. 64Transportunder 1 mi
- Bridge No. 63Transportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.