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Farm Range at Gwernaffel Farm
Whitton, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 16 March 1992
- Locality
- Gwernaffel
- Community
- Whitton
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.32858, -3.07607
- Cadw reference
- 9099
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Lies about 100 yds north east of Gwernaffel Farmhouse, formerly part of planned courtyard lay-out.
Exterior
9099
C18 long range, sited down the slope incorporating a two-bay barn and lean-to feed store, and cowhouses and stable with loft over. Coursed rubble blocks with slit ventilators, the central cowhouse loft weatherboarded, tin roof, plank doors and shutters. Right hand rear has single storey loose boxes under catslide roof.
Interior: Retains original stalling, mangers and hay-racks. Tie beam trusses with diagonal braces at feed store end. Heavy timber-framed partitions at first floor level over the cowhouses with collar beam trusses with queen and princess posts. Stable loft has king-post trusses. Trenched purlins and pegged joints throughout.
Included as a good and unspoilt example of a late vernacular composite farm range. The "barn" end would also have been used for lambing/shearing and the storage of fleeces.
Group value with farmhouse..
Nearby in the register
- Gwernaffel FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Tiled HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Offa's Dyke: Section extending 200m S to Pool House, Rhos-y-MeirchLinear Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Brookhouse FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.