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
20844
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/11/1998
Date of Amendment
19/11/1998
Name of Property
Barn at Y Fro
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
The Vale of Grwyney
Town
Locality
Fro
Easting
323132
Northing
219616
Street Side
Location
On NE side of house, which is situated approximately 1.1km SW of Llanbedr.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
A late C17 or early C18 barn.
Exterior
Rubble stone barn built on a sloping site, with battered walls and roof of concrete pantiles. The front has a central wagon bay doorway with double boarded doors, a timber lintel and wooden brackets of a former canopy. The doorway is flanked by 3 stepped ventilation slits. The R gable end has 2 tiers of 3 ventilation slits and a loft opening (now glazed) under a drip stone. The L gable end has a single tier of 3 ventilation slits, a boarded loft opening and a triangular breather below the apex. To the rear is a central lean-to with a single-storey projection to R.
Interior
Not inspected at time of survey (December 1997).
Reason for designation
Included for group value with the house as a good early barn.
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