Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
20864
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/11/1998
Date of Amendment
19/11/1998
Name of Property
Barn at Henbant Fach
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
The Vale of Grwyney
Town
Locality
Henbant
Easting
324441
Northing
220780
Street Side
Location
On E side of the house.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Probably early C17 and contemporary with the addition of the fireplace and upper storey to the house.
Exterior
On a steeply sloping site with the N gable end built into the bank. The walls are rubble sandstone, with timber framing below the eaves clad in weatherboarding, and with a wide batter at the downhill end. The roof is concrete pantiles. The front has central boarded doors to the wagon bay, and lower L is a boarded door to a former stable beneath the barn floor. To the rear are external stone stairs (the lower steps replaced in concrete) to a central doorway with a stop-chamfer wooden frame.
Interior
Not inspected at time of survey (January 1998), but recorded by Smith and Jones as retaining 3 pairs of upper crucks.
Reason for designation
Listed as an early Breconshire farm building and for group value with the house.
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