Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn at Upper Bettws Farm
Clyro, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 5 August 1991
- Locality
- Bettws
- Community
- Clyro
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.11111, -3.13631
- Cadw reference
- 9361
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Below the farmhouse to west and set into the slope.
Exterior
Late C17/early C18, 7-bay stone and timber-frame barn with two threshing bays. Slate roof, hipped at lower end; the timber-frame parts are externally clad in modern lap-boarding. At the top end of the W side is a projecting tall gabled porch with modern doors onto the threshing floor; smaller opposing doors towards the lower end, again taller on the W side. Slit ventilators to middle on W side, to stone base at lower end (E side) and to uphill gable end where there is a central loft door. Lean-to on E side.
Interior
The roof trusses have tie beams, queen struts and overlapping purlins with jowelled wall posts in the timber-framed part. The 3 bays beneath the main threshing floor are sloping and the lower 3 bays are flat and lofted; there is a partial division between the two created by short transverse walls. Most timbers are lightly chamfered; square-panelling to the lower W side. Restored in 1990.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Upper Bettws farmhouse and other listed farm buildings.
Nearby in the register
- Upper Bettws FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cartshed and Cidermill at Upper Bettws FarmIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Cowhouse at Upper Bettws FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Church of Holy Trinity (Chapel of ease to St Michael and All Angels, Clyro)Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.