Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
81791
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/08/2003
Date of Amendment
22/08/2003
Name of Property
Cartshed at Plas Machen
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Newport
Community
Graig
Town
Newport
Locality
Plas Machen
Easting
323466
Northing
187600
Street Side
Location
In the farmyard just N of the house at Plas Machen.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Large 5-bay open fronted cart shed, probably earlier C19, presumably built for the Tredegar estate. Old photographs show stone tiles to the hipped roof.
Exterior
Cartshed, purple rubble stone with asbestos sheet hipped roof, single storey with five elliptical-arched cart entries to front, each arch with tooled cut stone voussoirs and square stone piers between. The left arch is slightly wider.
Interior
Interior retains four oak tie-beam and collar trusses, the collars bolted.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-built estate cart-shed with formal arched facade, of group value with Plas Machen.
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