Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former barn and stable at Dolau Uchaf
Llanybydder, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 26 January 2021
- Welsh name
- Hen ysgubor a stabl yn Dolau Uchaf
- Locality
- Rhydcymerau
- Community
- Llanybydder
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.03158, -4.08869
- Cadw reference
- 87830
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 1860 "41. Caermathen." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On the NE side of the old farmhouse.
History
Built as a barn and stable in the early C19 and marked on the 1840 Tithe map of Llanybyther. It was converted to a cow house in the mid C20.
Exterior
Limewashed rubble-stone farm building under a slate roof, part of which had collapsed at the time of inspection in October 2020. Facing the yard the original full-height wagon bay doorway has been blocked. To its R is a boarded door and small-pane window to the former stable. Abutting the rear of the building is a corrugated-iron hay shed, concealing a winnowing doorway in the back wall, above which is a rough aperture made by insertion of a shaft, which allowed a portable engine to aid threshing. A corrugated-iron lean is built against the R-hand, downhill, gable end.
Interior
The interior has been converted to a cow house, by means of rendering the lower part of the walls and insertion of concrete stalls. The 6-bay roof has collar-beam trusses.
Reason for designation
Listed, notwithstanding the poor condition of the roof, as an integral component of a rare well-preserved early-C19 farm group retaining strong original character, with interior detail documenting the trend toward dairy farming in the mid C20.
Nearby in the register
- Old House at Dolau UchafNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Cow house at Dolau UchafNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- RhiwDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn, cart shed and stable at Gelli UchafAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.