Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Field barn at Gors Farm
St. Harmon, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in St Harmon, Powys, designated on 14 December 2004.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 14 December 2004
- Locality
- St Harmon
- Community
- St. Harmon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.34995, -3.46760
- Cadw reference
- 83375
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)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 179 Rhyader (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Gors Farm is 1.5km ENE of St Harmon, reached by farm track on the N side of a minor road between St Harmon and Abbey Cwmhir. The barn is on the hillside 200m N of the farm, reached by farm track.
History
Dated 1774, and shown on the 1833 Ordnance Survey and 1839 Tithe map.
Exterior
A timber-framed field barn on a rubble-stone plinth, with weatherboarded E side partly replaced with corrugated iron, corrugated iron N and W walls, and S wall rebuilt in rubble stone but with corrugated-iron loft. The half-hipped roof is slate. The E side has central double boarded doors, the lintel of which is inscribed 'MTO IWS ITC 1774'. A boarded door is to the L and a loft opening is L of centre. In the rear a corrugated-iron lean-to is built against the wagon bay. On the N side, where the ground level falls steeply, are 2 doorways to cattle housing beneath the 2 end bays of the barn.
Interior
The 5-bay roof has a tie beam and raking struts.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a dated and well-preserved C18 barn, notwithstanding superficial replacement of exterior cladding.
Nearby in the register
- Beili-Bedw EarthworksDeserted Rural Settlementunder 1 mi
- Bronze Age round barrow NW of Glan-martegRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Round Barrows 400m NNW of Beili HwlynRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- Bronze Age tumulus north of Beili HaulwenRound Barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.