Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn/cowhouse block at Garth-fawr
Painscastle, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llandeilo Graban, Painscastle, Powys, designated on 25 October 2001.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 25 October 2001
- Locality
- Llandeilo Graban
- Community
- Painscastle
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.08384, -3.29977
- Cadw reference
- 25845
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 197 Hay (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
About 900m NNW of Ciliau, on higher ground.
History
Probably late C17/early C18, but awkward join between blocks suggests 2 phases. According to a local tradition the barn may have been moved to this site in mid C19 when the railway was built along the River Wye.
Exterior
Barn aligned roughly E-W with cowhouse range at right angles to E, on S side. Barn is timber-framed, front and rear, partially clad in corrugated sheeting, with end walls in stone. Large opposed threshing doorways. Roof partially original stone slates, partially corrugated sheeting. Cowhouse range mainly stone with open front with jowelled posts. Roof and front covered in corrugated sheeting. Three bays face yard (further bay at N end incorporates junction with barn) central paired doors, wooden gates to outer bays.
Interior
Barn of 5 bays; roof trusses with tie-beams and raking struts. Threshing floor flanked by dwarf stone walls; posts and raking struts to cross-framing. Cowhouse has roof trusses with cambered tie-beams and raking struts, with complex (C19) diagonal truss at turn where range meets barn. Jowelled posts to front facing yard. Wooden feeding troughs and hay rack intact.
Reason for designation
An early agricultural range connected with Grade II* listed Ciliau.
Nearby in the register
- Twyn y Garth Round BarrowsRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Twyn y Garth GunCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Agricultural Range to N of CiliauAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- CiliauDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.