Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
16417
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/09/1995
Date of Amendment
22/09/1995
Name of Property
Old Beaupre Barn
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Community
Llanfair
Town
Locality
Old Beaupre
Easting
300919
Northing
171947
Street Side
Location
Located to the SE of Old Beaupre Castle, within a field approximately 100m S of the farmhouse, aligned on a NE/SW axis.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
C16 barn formerly serving the farm at Old Beaupre. Old Beaupre Castle is a substantial fortified manor house dating from the C14 to the early C17, now primarily a roofless ruin in the care of Cadw. The Bassett family occupied the site from the first recorded references in 1262.. The manor was sold in 1709.
Exterior
Roofless 5-bay barn of c1500. Coursed rubble elevations with batter to base of walls. Two asymmetrically placed doorways on the E and W elevations with two-centred arches of dressed sutton stone with relieving arches behind. To N and S gables high set ventilation openings with splayed loop on interior.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed grade II as a surviving sub-medieval ancillary farm building of group value with Old Beaupre Castle complex.
Scheduled Ancient Monument No. GM1 (part)
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