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
24385
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/11/2000
Date of Amendment
14/11/2000
Name of Property
Barn and cart shed at Careg-yn-fol
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llanwrthwl
Town
Locality
Careg-yn-fol
Easting
299190
Northing
262491
Street Side
Location
On the SW side of the farmhouse.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Careg-yn-fol farm was built in the second quarter of the C19 by James Watt of Doldowlod House and represents the agricultural improvements initiated by Watt on his estate. A mixed arable and livestock farm, the buildings were laid out in unusual fashion with the barn and cow house at a splayed angle in front of the house, a layout also adopted by the estate at nearby Erwbant Farm. The barn, incorporating a cart shed, was built by 1847, while a later cart shed and a small outshut, possibly a calf cot, was added in the late C19.
Exterior
A barn of rubble stone and slate roof attached to the SW corner of the house, with an added lower cart shed an outshut against the opposite gable end. Facing the former farmyard on the E side is a doorway to the threshing bay L of centre, with segmental stone head and boarded door. To its L is a ventilation strip, and to its R an inserted window with blue-brick head and sill. To the R of centre is a stone-segmental headed doorway to a narrow through passage, and then a similar doorway to the cart shed. Against the L gable end the lower added cart shed has an outshut, probably a pen for calves, on the E side, with a stable door. On the W side the added cart shed has a full-height opening with later boarded doors. The rear of the barn has a full-height doorway with boarded doors to the threshing bay, which is flanked by ventilation strips. To the L of centre is the through-passage doorway, then 2 wide doorways under a later wooden lintel, with boarded loft openings above.
Interior
The barn has a king-post roof with raking struts.
Reason for designation
Listed as part of a well-preserved C19 farm group and one of the best surviving examples in the district of agricultural improvement in the early-mid C19.
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