Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
9099
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/03/1992
Date of Amendment
16/03/1992
Name of Property
Farm Range at Gwernaffel Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Whitton
Town
Locality
Gwernaffel
Easting
326765
Northing
270600
Street Side
Location
Lies about 100 yds north east of Gwernaffel Farmhouse, formerly part of planned courtyard lay-out.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Exterior
9099
C18 long range, sited down the slope incorporating a two-bay barn and lean-to feed store, and cowhouses and stable with loft over. Coursed rubble blocks with slit ventilators, the central cowhouse loft weatherboarded, tin roof, plank doors and shutters. Right hand rear has single storey loose boxes under catslide roof.
Interior: Retains original stalling, mangers and hay-racks. Tie beam trusses with diagonal braces at feed store end. Heavy timber-framed partitions at first floor level over the cowhouses with collar beam trusses with queen and princess posts. Stable loft has king-post trusses. Trenched purlins and pegged joints throughout.
Included as a good and unspoilt example of a late vernacular composite farm range. The "barn" end would also have been used for lambing/shearing and the storage of fleeces.
Group value with farmhouse..
Interior
Reason for designation
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