Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
13878
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/01/1963
Date of Amendment
28/11/2003
Name of Property
Barn at Pen-hefyd Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
St. Fagans
Town
Cardiff
Locality
St Fagans
Easting
311692
Northing
177725
Street Side
Location
At the northern entrance to St Fagans village off the road to Radyr.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Mid C19. One of the many improvements made by the Plymouth Estate to their agricultural properties in St. Fagans during the mid C19.
Exterior
Built of limewashed stone rubble with squared quoins and a Welsh slate roof with ridge tiles. Lofty barn of seven bays. East elevation with off-centre porch with cart doors, slit ventilators. Longer wing to north with door to stable. West elevation with opposed porch. North gable abuts cowhouse.
Interior
Seven bay barn with six strapped king post trusses and three tiers of purlins. Stone paved threshing floor. Remains of tallet at north end over stable.
Reason for designation
Included as a little altered Plymouth Estate farm building having group value with other buildings at Pen-hefyd Farm.
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