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
22213
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
27/08/1999
Date of Amendment
27/08/1999
Name of Property
Cil-yr-ychen Barn Range
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llandybie
Town
Ammanford
Locality
Cil-yr-ychen
Easting
261470
Northing
217130
Street Side
Location
At west side of Cil-yr-ychen farmyard.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Threshing barn probably late C18 or early C19; later hay barn shown on the c1876 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A long barn range consisting of a double threshing barn to the north, with integral stable to the south, the latter with a hayloft above. To the south end, in tandem, is attached an open hay barn. The threshing barn is in rubble masonry, roofed in stone slabs with a tile ridge; the hay barn is in axe-dressed masonry with a roof of corrugated steel sheeting.
The threshing barn has two sets of opposed great doors, with neatly formed low segmental arches, vertically boarded; one door position in the west side is walled up, the other has informal lean-to structure built within it. Three tall slit ventilators to each side. The stable and loft part of the building has a single door with two loft hatches over. There are no openings in the rear wall to this part.
The hay barn is a later structure. Four bays formed by stone piers each about 0.6m square; holes in the stonework show there were two rails at low height each side.
Interior
The threshing barn is of six bays, with C19 king-post trusses. Beneath the tie beam to the north of the south pair of doors is a length of line shafting, probably for bringing power into the barn for threshing.
The stable part includes a loose box.
Reason for designation
Listed as a fine vernacular farm-building range, an unusual combination of corn and hay barn, the latter a type not commonly found in South Wales; forming a group with the farmhouse at Cil-yr-ychen farm.
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