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
24113
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
10/10/2000
Date of Amendment
10/10/2000
Name of Property
Barn and Granary at Innage Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Mathern
Town
Chepstow
Locality
Mathern
Easting
352490
Northing
191037
Street Side
Location
In the centre of Mathern village about 200m north east of the Church of St Tewdric.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
This building was constructed in two or possibly three stages. The small first barn dates probably from the later C18 but could be older. It has had an extra hayloft, granary and cartsheds added in the first half of the C19, and there was another cart shed with granary over added at right angles to the join between the other buildings forming a T-shaped multi-purpose agricultural building. This second granary is perhaps a little later than the first addition, but is still about 1850 in date.
Exterior
The barn is constructed of a squared yellowish local stone rubble with pantiled roof, but the added buildings are in grey limestone rubble with asbestos slate roofs. The barn is of three bays with the right hand one now hidden by the projecting granary. Opposed cart doors to the threshing floor, with one slit vent to the yard and three on the rear. The barn range continues into a granary over two cart sheds. The sheds have double boarded doors, the granary an external stair and a boarded door in the gable end. The rear wall of this has a blocked door and a small rectangular window. The building projecting from the centre of these has a open cart shed under a boarded gable. External stone stair to the granary which has small windows flanking a gabled doorway. The rear elevation of this has a lean-to shed obscuring the ground floor and three more windows to the granary above, these are all 2-light casements.
Interior
The barn has a four bay roof with principal rafter trusses jointed at the apex, with tie-beams, collars, two tiers of purlins and minimal ridge piece. Stone threshing floor. The interiors were otherwise not seen.
Reason for designation
Included as a good and little altered example of a multi-purpose agricultural building of several periods but unaltered since about 1850. It also has strong group value with the adjacent Innage Farmhouse.
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