Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
20308
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
21/08/1998
Date of Amendment
21/08/1998
Name of Property
Barn at Cathedine Fawr
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llangors
Town
Locality
Cathedine
Easting
314606
Northing
226127
Street Side
Location
Built into hillside just N of house with farmyard between.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Probably earlier C18 with some rebuilding at SW. Paired threshing floors are relatively rare and denote the prosperity of the farm and area.
Cathedine Fawr is dated 1699 and was the home of the Vaughan family.
Exterior
Large 8 bay barn of stone rubble with Welsh slate and stone tiled roof, aligned E/W. Pairs of opposing doorways E and W, doorway SW altered; one main tier of ventilation slits with stone lintels to front and timber to rear, 2 to gable end. To accommodate sloping ground, W end has deep plinth; ground level is also substantially higher behind barn. Atttached to SW corner is a rubble wall forming main farmyard boundary and bordering yard in front of byre.
Interior
Pegged trusses have tie beams and struts and 3 rows of trenched purlins; sharp arises to deep splays of ventilation slits; stone flag threshing floor.
Reason for designation
Included as a good and large early barn retaining one pitch of stone tiles.
Group value with Cathedine Fawr farmhouse and byre.
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