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
24370
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/11/2000
Date of Amendment
14/11/2000
Name of Property
Barn and cow house at Ynysmaerdy Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taff
Community
Llanharan
Town
Locality
Ynysmaerdy
Easting
303272
Northing
183960
Street Side
Location
On the N side of the farmhouse.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Built in the third quarter of the C19 and first shown on the 1875 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A U-shaped block on the N side of the farm house, of which the W and N wings were cow houses, the higher E wing a barn and stable. Of whitewashed rubble stone, with tooled stone dressings and slate roof. The W wing has 7 segmental-headed doorways, while its gable end has a small-pane window with a blocked loft window above. The N wing was built with 8 doorways, of which the doorway L of centre is wider (for a cart) and the doorway to its immediate L is now a window. The doorways at each end are higher. In the E wing the barn has a wagon bay to the L with a segmental-headed door partly infilled. In the centre of the wing is a single segmental-headed door. Its roughcast gable end has a boarded door to the R beneath segmental head, and a boarded door to the loft above. The barn has openings with brick jambs now boarded up, while its rear gable end has a doorway cut through an earlier block doorway with elliptical arch. The N wing has a corrugated iron rear slope and brick jambs to blocked openings.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed as a mid C19 multi-purpose and carefully planned farm building of a type now rare in the area with character retained.
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