Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn to SW of Penhow Castle
Penhow, Newport, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 24 February 1976
- Locality
- Penhow Castle
- Community
- Penhow
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.61298, -2.83409
- Cadw reference
- 3056
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
Part of a "U" shaped farmyard group together with the "L"shaped range, located to the N side of the driveway leading to Penhow Castle from A48, Newport/Chepstow Road.
Exterior
Substantial C17, 7 bay barn with steeply pitched pantiled gabled roof and elevations of local rubblestone with traces of limewashing. Single storey lean-to to S elevation and open-sided gabled cartshed attached to W end. Cut into bankside at E end. S elevation has substantial rubble buttress at W end and paired ventilation slots on bays 1 and 2 at W end. Third bay has full height opening with modern sliding doors. C19 lean-to obscures remaining 4 bays to E, open on W side with two former doorways with redbrick dressings, now blocked. Large rectangular opening set high up on E gable with heavy timber frame and shutter. N elevation obscured by large portal framed barn. Internally it retains original C17 pegged and trussed oak roof structure, without collars, with three purlins and ridge beam with struts between ties and principal rafters. Flagged threshing floor to third bay. Formerly external doorway within lean-to in bay 5.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Penhow Castle and its associated listed farm buildings.
Nearby in the register
- L-shaped Byre Range to SW of Penhow CastleAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Parish Church of St John the BaptistReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Penhow CastleDefenceunder 1 mi
- Stable Block to far SW of Penhow CastleDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.