Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
9362
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
05/08/1991
Date of Amendment
31/01/1995
Name of Property
Cowhouse at Upper Bettws Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Clyro
Town
Locality
Bettws
Easting
322317
Northing
246494
Street Side
Location
Below the farmhouse to E and set into the slope.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Exterior
te C17/early C18. Rubble ground floor and S(downhill) gable end, lapboarded above to loft; slate roof. The W side, facing the farmyard has 4-evenly spaced doorways and slit ventilators; modern boarded doors; similar doorways to rear. The uphill gable end has projecting stones suggesting that there may have been outside steps to the loft; the downhill gable end has doveboxes and ledges. Formerly a lean-to at rear.
Interior
5-bay interior, the lofted uphill bay of which is separated off by a rubble wall; transverse feeding passages. A-frame roof trusses with queen struts and purlins. Square panelled timber framed uphill gable end. Restored in 1990.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Upper Bettws farmhouse and other listed farm buildings.
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