Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
21210
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/12/1998
Date of Amendment
17/12/1998
Name of Property
Barn and byre range at Coed Hir
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Talybont-on-Usk
Town
Locality
Taf Fechan
Easting
305119
Northing
214697
Street Side
Location
Above the mountain road between Ponsticill and Talybont, reached by a steep farm track, near the SW bank of Pentwyn Reservoir.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Byre possibly C17/C18 in origin with a mid C19 barn added downhill, itself enlarged by the addition of a calf pen in 1867.
Exterior
Range of 2 separate units, built into the slope. The upper unit, the byre, is of limewashed rubble with a Welsh slate roof. Arched doorways at each end face the farm track, stone tiled hood to left and a wide stone buttress between; loft door at gable end, no windows to rear but roof extended to form hood. Lower unit has part pantile part stone tile half hipped roof, which is extended both sides to form porches to the double doors. The stone tiles are perhaps reused from the earlier uphill part. The S side has been extended by outshuts to the level of the porch thus forming a catslide roof. Ventilation slits either side of porch and in gable end have a stone divider midway; further small ventilators to outshuts.
Interior
Byre retains some stone stalls and central feed passage. Barn of 4 bays with pegged and bolted tie-beam trusses and 3 rows of trenched purlins has stone threshing floor with stone kerbs and cobbled porch floor. Outshut to right believed to have been used as a bull pen and that to left as a calf shed.
Reason for designation
Listed for the special historic character of this upland agricultural building.
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