Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Little Porton Byre
Goldcliff, Newport, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 9 May 1983
- Locality
- Whitson
- Town
- Newport
- Community
- Goldcliff
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.54560, -2.89246
- Cadw reference
- 3066
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
Approximately 200m SE of church; to R of Little Porton farmhouse.
Exterior
Long single-storey byre, probably early C19. Rough timber-framed construction of poles covered by walls of broad roughly-hewn boards. Corrugated roof covering over thatch. Rough-hewn rafters to roof some trusses with collars and a ridge. Some stone flags to floor; partitions also roughly-hewn planks and split tree trunks; End bay (to road) has partition, feeding trough and planked door.
Reason for designation
Group value with adjacent cottage. Listed as rare survival.
Nearby in the register
- Little Porton CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Whitson ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Samson CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Whitson FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.