Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Part of L-Plan Ranges of Barns to N of Downton House
New Radnor, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 29 April 1993
- Locality
- Downton
- Community
- New Radnor
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.23958, -3.12789
- Cadw reference
- 9244
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
Known as Lower Buildings and sited about 130m N of the house. Occupying an ancient site adjoining fishponds.
Exterior
Barn: Forming north range. Mid C18, three bays with central threshing bay and additional lofted cowhouse bay to west. Rubble/brick plinth, stud walls, weatherboard skin, iron roof. Tie-beam trusses with two pairs of raking braces, bay partitions have high plinths of C18 brickwork. Eaves height double doors. (Adjoining cowhouse range reduced in height.)
Barn: Forming east range. C17? five bays with threshing bay. Rubble/brick plinth, weatherboarded skin, iron roof, some square panel timber-framing.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Downton House and Downton Farm.
Nearby in the register
- Part of L-Plan Ranges of Barns to N of Downton HouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Downton HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Outbuildings attached to W of Downton FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Downtown FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.