Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Granary at Upper House Farm
Crickhowell, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 25 September 1986
- Community
- Crickhowell
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.85950, -3.13500
- Cadw reference
- 7253
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 in the farmyard to the E of, and adjoining, the farmhouse.
History
Probably contemporary with the C17 farmhouse.
Exterior
Single-storey rubble pigsty to left with 4 openings behind whitewashed rubble wall with boarded doors.
Undulating stone tiled roof of lean-to type.
Taller single-storey and attic building to right, with whitewashed rubble front, rubble rear and slate roof, part corrugated to rear pitch; overhanging eaves to front. Gabled entry to left reached by outside rubble steps. Pivot windows and boarded door; broad opening to left leading to rear. Roof raised to left rear with lean-to extension.
Interior
Interior retains original roof construction with dowelled timbers, and tenoned purlins.
Reason for designation
Included for group value.
Nearby in the register
- Pigsty at Upper House FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Upper HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Little Malt HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Malt HouseIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.