Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn at Upper House Farm
Crucorney, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 8 June 1990
- Locality
- Grwyne Fawr
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Community
- Crucorney
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.90620, -3.04504
- Cadw reference
- 2830
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 across the farmyard in front of the farmhouse end-on to the slope.
History
Probably C17 but reroofed in 1828 (dated).
Exterior
Coursed grey pennant rubble masonry. Steeply pitched corrugated asbestos roof, with some steel sheet patching. Full height double doors to front and rear elevations, Chevron boarded with halfdoor to right on front. Canopies over doorways on moulded timber brackets. Single ventilation slits to storage bay on left, dripstones. Two tiers of two ventilation slits to larger storage bay on right, obscured by later outshots to front and rear. 3 triangular vent holes to left gable end, ground floor obscured by later lean-to. Single triangular vent over ventilation slit with dripstone to imposing downhill right gable end.
Interior
Four bay barn with central stone flagged threshing floor, kerbstones on left, low rubble wall on right. 4 bay roof with three tie beam trusses with queen struts. Tie beam over threshing floor inscribed "TP 1828 TG". The timbers are heavy scantling and are intended to carry a stone roof, some of the principals, ties and purlins are probably C17.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of a C17 barn reroofed in 1828 and having important group value with the farmhouse and the other listed buildings in the farmyard.
Nearby in the register
- Bee Boles set into retaining wall at Upper House FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
- Upper House FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former malthouse at Upper House Farm, including retaining wall to frontDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cartshed at Upper House FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.