Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
18741
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
07/08/1997
Date of Amendment
07/08/1997
Name of Property
Barn at Race Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Torfaen
Community
New Inn
Town
Pontypool
Locality
Race Farm
Easting
330545
Northing
197420
Street Side
E
Location
About 60m south west of Race Farmhouse.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
A late C18 or early C19 hay or threshing barn.
Exterior
Stone rubble walls with a stone tile roof on the front slope and asbestos slates on the rear. Plain front with vertical ventilating slit in the wall to either side of the central projecting gabled porch. This has a timber framed gable infilled with red brick and the original double plank doors. The building is unchanged externally apart from the recladding of the rear roof slope.
Interior
Hay or threshing barn with a central midstrey. Principal rafter roof with ties and collars; at least one tie is a reused C17 house beam with hollow chamfer and run out stops. The principals are halved and pegged at the apex and there are three tiers of through purlins. The main members are hand sawn.
Reason for designation
A virtually unaltered barn dating probably from the late C18 or early C19 and for group value with Race Farmhouse.
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