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
14131
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
11/08/1992
Date of Amendment
28/11/2003
Name of Property
L-shaped Farmyard Range between Barn and Cowhouse at Pen-hefyd Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
St. Fagans
Town
Cardiff
Locality
St Fagans
Easting
311689
Northing
177751
Street Side
Location
Attached to the barn to south-west and to the cowhouse to north-east at Penhefyd Farm which is at the northern end of St Fagans village.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Penhefyd Farm was formerly the Home Farm to St Fagans Castle, part of the Plymouth estates. The L-shaped farmyard range is probably mid C19 and is shown on the 1st edition OS map, surveyed in 1878. The east/west part appears to have been altered and reroofed when the adjoining c1908 cowhouse was built. This range provided cattle accommodation on a smaller and less mechanised scale than that of the later neighbouring cowhouse and they serve to demonstrate the development of agricultural methods during the C19.
Exterior
The north/south part adjoining the barn was probably built first; it is of rubble construction with red brick voussoirs to the square-headed doorways at either end and to the five destinctive semicircular openings between. The east/west part was built open-fronted with piers of similar hammer-dressed masonry to that of the cowhouse; the front has now been infilled with yellow brick. The rubble rear wall has been built up to match the eaves level of the cowhouse. Welsh slate roofs to both parts of the building.
Interior
Roof of mechanically sawn king-post trusses.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with the Barn and Cowhouse at Penhefyd Farm.
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