2830

 

II  

Designated  

08/06/1990  

29/01/1998  

Barn at Upper House Farm  

 

Monmouthshire  

Crucorney  

Abergavenny  

Grwyne Fawr  

328203  

223590  

 

Located across the farmyard in front of the farmhouse end-on to the slope.  

Agriculture and Subsistence  

 

Probably C17 but reroofed in 1828 (dated).  

Coursed grey pennant rubble masonry. Steeply pitched corrugated asbestos roof, with some steel sheet patching. Full height double doors to front and rear elevations, Chevron boarded with halfdoor to right on front. Canopies over doorways on moulded timber brackets. Single ventilation slits to storage bay on left, dripstones. Two tiers of two ventilation slits to larger storage bay on right, obscured by later outshots to front and rear. 3 triangular vent holes to left gable end, ground floor obscured by later lean-to. Single triangular vent over ventilation slit with dripstone to imposing downhill right gable end.  

Four bay barn with central stone flagged threshing floor, kerbstones on left, low rubble wall on right. 4 bay roof with three tie beam trusses with queen struts. Tie beam over threshing floor inscribed "TP 1828 TG". The timbers are heavy scantling and are intended to carry a stone roof, some of the principals, ties and purlins are probably C17.  

Included as a good example of a C17 barn reroofed in 1828 and having important group value with the farmhouse and the other listed buildings in the farmyard.