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
20308
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
21/08/1998  
Date of Amendment
21/08/1998  
Name of Property
Barn at Cathedine Fawr  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Llangors  
Town
 
Locality
Cathedine  
Easting
314606  
Northing
226127  
Street Side
 
Location
Built into hillside just N of house with farmyard between.  

Description


Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence  
Period
 

History
Probably earlier C18 with some rebuilding at SW. Paired threshing floors are relatively rare and denote the prosperity of the farm and area. Cathedine Fawr is dated 1699 and was the home of the Vaughan family.  

Exterior
Large 8 bay barn of stone rubble with Welsh slate and stone tiled roof, aligned E/W. Pairs of opposing doorways E and W, doorway SW altered; one main tier of ventilation slits with stone lintels to front and timber to rear, 2 to gable end. To accommodate sloping ground, W end has deep plinth; ground level is also substantially higher behind barn. Atttached to SW corner is a rubble wall forming main farmyard boundary and bordering yard in front of byre.  

Interior
Pegged trusses have tie beams and struts and 3 rows of trenched purlins; sharp arises to deep splays of ventilation slits; stone flag threshing floor.  

Reason for designation
Included as a good and large early barn retaining one pitch of stone tiles. Group value with Cathedine Fawr farmhouse and byre.  

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