Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn at Glanffrwd Mill
Gobion Fawr, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 19 August 1985
- Locality
- Coed Morgan
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Community
- Gobion Fawr
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.80021, -2.93935
- Cadw reference
- 2778
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
Across the yard some 40m to the south-east of the house.
History
Possibly early C18. Fully repaired post listing in 1985.
Exterior
Built with local stone, random rubble walls with some freestone quoins, and an artificial stone tile roof. Large opposed doors (renewed) with two slit vents to either side. Splayed ventilation slits on three levels to both gables, one on the north gable now widened to a taking-in door. Rear elevation not seen.
Interior
Five bay interior with queen strut tie-beam trusses resting on wall-heads, stone threshing floor.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as a well preserved early C18 barn of regional type, which forms part of a group with Glanffrwd Mill.
Nearby in the register
- Glanffrwd MillIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Dovecote at Coed MorganAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Llanddewi Rhydderch Baptist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Street Wall, Gatepiers and Gates of Llanddewi Rhydderch Baptist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.