Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn at Sunny Barn
Brecon, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Brecon, Powys, designated on 16 December 1976.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 16 December 1976
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Brecon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94282, -3.37488
- Cadw reference
- 6846
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 213 Brecon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
To NE of Sunny Barn.
History
Circa early C19. A structure of similar size shown on tithe map of 1839.
Exterior
Barn of five bays with stone rubble walls and half-hipped slate roof; built on sloping ground. Waggon entries in long sides and blocked ventilator slits. Roof and walls extend in continuous line over outbuilding of one storey and loft, probably formerly stables, at north end of barn. North gable end with small boarded opening; W wall has doorway with cambered head, covered window at eaves above modern window.
Interior
Said to have five bays and a lower floor at S end.
Reason for designation
Included for Group Value with Sunny Barn.
Nearby in the register
- Sunny BarnDomesticunder 1 mi
- Camden CourtEducationunder 1 mi
- Bank of Lime Kilns on S side of canal near Lime Kiln CottageIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Slwch CampHillfortunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.