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
24151
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
19/10/2000  
Date of Amendment
19/10/2000  
Name of Property
Granary and Cider House at Lower Dyffryn  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire  
Community
Grosmont  
Town
Abergavenny  
Locality
The Dyffryn  
Easting
343503  
Northing
222699  
Street Side
 
Location
Located at the end of a long farm track leading off the N side of the minor road to Norton, some 3 km SW of Grosmont village. The granary lies about 20m S of Lower Dyffryn house.  

Description


Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence  
Period
 

History
Early C19 horse-operated cider mill with granary above. The external stone steps have been added later.  

Exterior
Rubble stone, corrugated iron roof. C19 two-storey granary and cider mill. The granary steps cut across the segmental arched voussoirs of the ground floor window of the cider house. To right of stair is a wide cartshed opening with boarded double doors; to left, a boarded door to the cowhouse. Upper storey has centre boarded door and square window openings with boarded shutters on each side. Attached to N side of cider mill is single-storey range: with (l to r) a 3-light transom window, segmental arched cartshed and (at right angles) a small stable.  

Interior
Large mill stone (1.1m diameter) and drive shaft. Centre shaft is square section and chamfered. Massive 3m diameter circular stone trough made from stone blocks clamped together with iron cramps has curved inner chase and rim capped in elm. Granary roof has C19 framed trusses with raking queen struts.  

Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved example of a C19 cider mill. Group value with house and the listed farm buildings at Lower Dyffryn.  

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