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
21107
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/01/1963
Date of Amendment
17/12/1998
Name of Property
Byre at Pencelli Court.
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Talybont-on-Usk
Town
Locality
Pencelli
Easting
309112
Northing
225032
Street Side
Location
Forms the N side of the farmyard facing Pencelli Court
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Possibly contemporary with Pencelli Court, which was built in 1691, or an addition early in C18.
Exterior
Of rubble formerly limewashed with corrugated roof; boulder footings. The rectangular building faces the barn/byre range attached to the main house with a cobbled yard between. Main frontage has boarded doors to 3 doorways, originally 5, with small woodframed openings in the blockings; further door end left to separate bay, possibly for calves; dormer loft opening. Laneside frontage has a single blocked centre doorway and low window in lean-to right; gable end facing farmyard has boarded door to feed passage with dressed stone lintel and pitching door to hayloft above.
Interior
Interior retains wooden troughs on stone ledges, hay racks, some stall fittings; passage to rear of stalls; full height wall separates end bay left.
Reason for designation
Included as an early byre and an integral part of the Pencelli farm complex.
Group value with Pencelli Court and associated listed farm buildings.
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