Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Converted barns at Penmaes
Felin-Fach, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 17 January 1963
- Locality
- Llanfilo
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Felin-Fach
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.99113, -3.28303
- Cadw reference
- 6746
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Around the farmyard just NW of the house at Penmaes, some 100m E of the church.
History
Extensive range of C18 to C19 farm buildings around a three-sided courtyard, open to upper S side. The lofted range at the upper end of the W side is dated 1833. The barns were converted to six houses in 2003-5.
Exterior
Farm courtyard ranges, rubble stone. Upper end of W range has C18 lofted cartshed and stable with stone tiles, date 1833, two storeys, four bays. Four cambered-headed square upper windows, set well below eaves, over door to right, two slightly longer windows and cart-entry to left. Cart-entry has cambered head set higher than other ground floor openings due to slope of site. Stone voussoirs to all openings, stone sills. Left end wall has outside steps to platform in front of loft door with stone voussoirs. Cambered-headed window in gable above. Early C21 glazing. Downhill to right with much lower slated roof is range with door to extreme left, window to centre left with timber lintel and small light under eaves above, centre right has two doors with heads stepped down hill and extreme right has big loft opening. Early C21 glazing and doors. In NW angle is L-plan former timber-framed barn, with slate roof lower again. Early C21 building within set back behind skeletal timber frame. NE corner has very big L-plan range of stone-tiled barns. N range has barn with full-height doorway with stone tiled pent-hood to right, vent loops in double row of three to left, of one to right. Similar range runs uphill on E side. Similar double row of vent loops, two each side of similar doorway with stone tiled hood. Uphill to right is long lofted cartshed range under same roof. Three cambered-headed cart-entries with stone voussoirs, square loft window under eaves immediately over centre opening. Straight joint to added S end section with door and window to right. Right end gable has loft door with window over.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included notwithstanding modern glazing and doors as an exceptionally good group of C18/C19 farm buildings, set around a courtyard.
Nearby in the register
- Lofted stable at PenmaesDomesticunder 1 mi
- PenmaesDomesticunder 1 mi
- PendarrenDomesticunder 1 mi
- Medieval Building in Llanfilo VillageBuilding (Unclassified)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.