Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn/Cowhouse Range to Craffryn
Llanfihangel Rhydithon, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Craffryn, Llanfihangel Rhydithon, Powys, designated on 17 June 1993.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 17 June 1993
- Locality
- Craffryn
- Community
- Llanfihangel Rhydithon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.28909, -3.25095
- Cadw reference
- 9281
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)
- 1899 · 180 Knighton (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Lies across by-road, about 10m south of the 1849 house at Craffryn.
Exterior
Long low farm range including barn, cowhouse and wainhouse under single, steeply-pitched roof. Low rubble plinth, weatherboarded stud-walls, tin roof. Four boarded doors on north-west side. South-east elevation has open-fronted wainhouse to right of barn and part rubble-walled cowhouse end to left.
Barn C18. Three bays with central stone-flagged threshing floor. Single doorway up steps on north-west side. Simple tie-beam trusses with angle braces, stud partition infill with horizontal boarding and low sole plate. Heavy stud-walls, with diagonal braces interrupting the studs, continues into cowhouse end and incorporates re-used box-framing timbers.
Cowhouse C18 has cobbled floor, boarded stalls, ties for eleven beasts, transverse feeding passage and loose-box bay. Wainhouse added later, possibly C19.
Reason for designation
Group value with house of 1849 and adjoining outbuilding at Craffryn.
Nearby in the register
- Outbuilding immediately to SW of CraffrynDomesticunder 1 mi
- CraffrynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Milestone in grass verge close to junction with lane to CraffrynTransportunder 1 mi
- The Parish HallRecreationalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.