Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Long Barn and attached Byre Range at Old Impton Farm
Presteigne, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 26 March 1985
- Locality
- Norton
- Community
- Presteigne
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.29601, -3.04119
- Cadw reference
- 8942
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 1637 "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
L-plan group uphill to Old Impton Farmhouse.
Exterior
Probably C18, 2 storeys with tractor shed attached at NW end, later alterations.
Long barn is mostly weatherboarded with rubble footings and lower gable ends, corrugated iron roofs. Vertically-boarded loft doors and ground floor openings including full-height threshing doors towards farmyard. Tie-beam trusses with angled braces, some post and panel infill, others boarded.
Byre range at right angles with rubble gable end to SE and ground floor ventilation slits, weatherboarding, regular doors and loft openings to yard. Weatherboarded gable to open tractor shed.
Later ranges to W are not of special interest.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Old Impton FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Coach-house and Stables at Norton Manor HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Norton Manor HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Dairy Building at Home Farm, Norton ManorAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.