Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Detached farm range at Cefn Pentre
Meifod, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 31 March 2003
- Locality
- Meifod
- Community
- Meifod
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.69253, -3.23095
- Cadw reference
- 81010
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 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Parallel to the main range, set back to its right.
History
No secure dating evidence, but likely to be a seventeenth or early eighteenth century addition to the farmstead, apparently as additional lofted stock accommodation.
Exterior
Timber framed on a stone plinth with weather boarded cladding and corrugated tin roof. End bay added or rebuilt in brick. Existing openings comprise dooways at left-hand gable end, and towards right-hand end, both with plank doors; inserted windows adjacent to left-hand doorway, a shuttered loft window towards each end and a taller loft opening towards the centre. Lower extension at left hand end.
Interior
Interior not seen.
Reason for designation
Listed as a tradition lofted farm-building, its original structure substantially intact, which forms a group with the main range at Cefn Pentre.
Nearby in the register
- Cefn PentreAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Camp 135m SE of Pant MawrEnclosureunder 1 mi
- Bwlch Aeddan DykeLinear Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Clawdd Wood round barrowRound Barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.