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
2891
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
30/06/1993  
Date of Amendment
19/10/2000  
Name of Property
Barn Range at Wern-y-cwm  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire  
Community
Skenfrith  
Town
Abergavenny  
Locality
Llanddewi Skirrid  
Easting
334332  
Northing
217939  
Street Side
 
Location
On the lower slopes of the Skirrid, some 2km NW of Llanvetherine village, at the end of a single track road which runs N off the B4521.  

Description


Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence  
Period
 

History
A probably mid C17 corn barn, enlarged in 1831 when E porch was added, with further additions in the later C19.  

Exterior
Farm building range consisting of large barn and attached farm buildings. Rubble stone, with slate roof and some brick dressings. Great barn has central threshing floor with large opposing gabled porches on each side. Porch to E has roundel in upper gable and datestone inscribed 'JI 1831'; wide segmental arch of stone voussoirs to cartshed entry, and boarded half doors. Each side of porch, front walls of the barn have two tiers of two slit ventilators on each side but these are obscured by the attached farm buildings. Attached to N is a stable and to S a single-storey pigsty with a stone walled front yard. Attached to the N gable of the barn is a full-height extension with stables on ground floor and above a half-timbered loft, now faced with vertical boarding. Barn rear elevation has porch with similar segmental arched cart entry and boarded half-doors. N wall of porch has blocked C17 3-light diamond mullion with dripstone. Long walls each side have tall ventilation slits. To left are two vent slits, then a blocked ground-floor doorway and (above) boarded door to pitching loft. To right, three vent slits are enclosed by C19 lean-to shelter shed. Attached to the S of the barn is a U-plan courtyard range: on N and E sides are single storey hammels with broad segmental arched brick openings facing an open yard, with remains of an earlier stone barn enclosing yard at extreme S end.  

Interior
Roof of five bays. Trusses with tie beams and raking queen struts; three tiers of purlins. Flagged threshing floor with transverse stone sill wall at lower end. From the interior, a blocked ovolo mullion window is visible in the upper N gable. A beam spanning the E porch has mortice holes which suggest that it once formed either the lintel or sill of a diamond mullion window, possibly re-used from an earlier timber-framed house at Wern-y-cwm.  

Reason for designation
Listed as a substantial and well-preserved C17 barn, with interesting C19 additions. Group value with the farmhouse at Wern-y-cwm.  

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