18539

 

II  

Designated  

14/07/1997  

14/07/1997  

Agricultural building at Middle Llegodig  

 

Powys  

Llandyssil  

 

Bryntalch  

317618  

296686  

 

Located on low lying ground on the edge of the flood plain of the River Severn. It faces the farmhouse, Middle Llegodig.  

Agriculture and Subsistence  

 

Probably built as a cowhouse with hayloft, perhaps in the later C18.  

Large cowhouse with hay loft over. Timber clad over timber framing under a corrugated iron roof on a brick plinth, with a similar lower range to the NE. The front elevation contains 5 doors, including 3 stable-type doors alternating with plain plank doorways (perhaps to feeding passages?), and has 2 hatches to the loft. The planked door towards the NE is entered by stone steps. The SW gable end is clad in corrugated iron with a loft hatch and opening below. There is a catslide extension to the rear, with openings at the SW end. The NE range contains a hay loft hatch and 2 openings at ground level.  

The building is entered via the stone steps and a planked door. This leads into a raised passage that allows access to the loft. The animals are housed to each side, at a lower level. Simple trusses with flat tie beams, diagonal struts and tension braces. The lower portions of the trusses are timber clad and form partitions.  

Listed as a particularly well preserved agricultural building, the layout and large size of which suggest it was specifically designed as a cowhouse in the C18. Group value with Middle Llegodig farmhouse.