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Barn range at Maes Mawr

A Grade II Listed Building in Talybont-on-Usk, Powys

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.8951 / 51°53'42"N

Longitude: -3.2834 / 3°17'0"W

OS Eastings: 311786

OS Northings: 222618

OS Grid: SO117226

Mapcode National: GBR YT.QXW5

Mapcode Global: VH6C7.1MKK

Plus Code: 9C3RVPW8+2M

Entry Name: Barn range at Maes Mawr

Listing Date: 17 December 1998

Last Amended: 17 December 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 21175

Building Class: Agriculture and Subsistence

ID on this website: 300021175

Location: On the opposite side of the lane from Maes Mawr farmhouse, reached off B4558.

County: Powys

Community: Talybont-on-Usk (Tal-y-bont ar Wysg)

Community: Talybont-on-Usk

Locality: Talybont on Usk

Built-Up Area: Talybont-on-Usk

Traditional County: Brecknockshire

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History

Long barn range shown on tithe map of 1841, NE wing added later. Possibly associated with C17 enlargement of the house.

Exterior

Long barn range of stone rubble with corrugated roof. Main barn with deep two storey hipped roof porch to front; front extension to right under catslide roof; to left smaller extension leaving 2 rows of ventilation slits of the barn visible. Long cross wing to N with stone base, boarded on a timber frame above. Attached to left, sharing the same ridge but with a different pitch, a 2 storey range probably a byre with loft above; segmental arched openings to two floors and ventilation slits; widened entrance end left. To rear the barn shows signs of alteration including a blocked door opposite the main porch; loft openings under eaves, a few ventilation slits; unused lower double doors to right. Attached left (S) is a lower bayed range, altered and now incorporated into a large cattle shed with corrugated roof, the gable end return onto the lane with a pitching eye and doorway. Farmyard bounded by a rubble wall to lane.

Interior

Interior not inspected at the time of survey (30th September 1997).

Reasons for Listing

Listed as an unusually large barn range associated with this important sub-medieval gentry house.

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