Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cart-house at Tan-y-fedw
Cray, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 17 January 1963
- Locality
- Crai
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Cray
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.91974, -3.61451
- Cadw reference
- 6726
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
Situated on the W side of the Afon Crai some 1.5 km NW of Crai village.
History
C19 outbuilding, a two-bay cart-shed with grain-loft over, notable for the re-use of a fine C15 ogee cusped lancet. The origins of the window are uncertain, there are the foundations of a square building to the SE of the present farmhouse. The building was restored in 2000. Tan-y-fedw is marked on the Crai Tithe map of 1840 as a 148 acre holding occupied by Howell Powell. The farm was owned by James Powell of Pantysgallog who owned a total of some 626 acres in the parish.
Exterior
Outbuilding, rubble stone, with asbestos sheet roof. Two storey with two cambered arches to front with stone voussoirs, outside steps on left end wall to broad loft door and window under single timber lintel. On right end wall a resited medieval window. This is of purple stone, single light, chamfered, with cusped ogee head. Square holes for iron bars to jambs and head.
Interior
Cart shed has a small recess on right side wall, but little indication that the wall itself is medieval. Timber lintels behind arches, adzed to arch-profile. Joisted ceiling with single chamfered centre beam.
Reason for designation
Included primarily for the surviving medieval stonework of high quality, and also as a well-built lofted cart-shed.
Nearby in the register
- Barn at Tan-y-fedwAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Berth IvanDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pont NantyrharnTransportunder 1 mi
- MarchogdirDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.