Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cowhouse at Upper Bettws Farm
Clyro, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bettws, Clyro, Powys, designated on 5 August 1991.
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
- 52.11129, -3.13579
- Cadw reference
- 9362
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (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)
- 1898 · 197 Hay (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Below the farmhouse to E and set into the slope.
Exterior
te C17/early C18. Rubble ground floor and S(downhill) gable end, lapboarded above to loft; slate roof. The W side, facing the farmyard has 4-evenly spaced doorways and slit ventilators; modern boarded doors; similar doorways to rear. The uphill gable end has projecting stones suggesting that there may have been outside steps to the loft; the downhill gable end has doveboxes and ledges. Formerly a lean-to at rear.
Interior
5-bay interior, the lofted uphill bay of which is separated off by a rubble wall; transverse feeding passages. A-frame roof trusses with queen struts and purlins. Square panelled timber framed uphill gable end. 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
- Barn at Upper Bettws FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cartshed and Cidermill at Upper Bettws FarmIndustrialunder 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.