Barn at Upper House Farm, Crucorney (Crucornau Fawr), Monmouthshire

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.9062 / 51°54'22"N

Longitude: -3.045 / 3°2'42"W

OS Eastings: 328203

OS Northings: 223590

OS Grid: SO282235

Mapcode National: GBR F4.Q397

Mapcode Global: VH78T.5CK1

Plus Code: 9C3RWX43+FX

Entry Name: Barn at Upper House Farm

Listing Date: 8 June 1990

Last Amended: 29 January 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 2830

Building Class: Agriculture and Subsistence

ID on this website: 300002830

Location: Located across the farmyard in front of the farmhouse end-on to the slope.

County: Monmouthshire

Town: Abergavenny

Community: Crucorney (Crucornau Fawr)

Community: Crucorney

Locality: Grwyne Fawr

Traditional County: Monmouthshire

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History

Probably C17 but reroofed in 1828 (dated).

Exterior

Coursed grey pennant rubble masonry. Steeply pitched corrugated asbestos roof, with some steel sheet patching. Full height double doors to front and rear elevations, Chevron boarded with halfdoor to right on front. Canopies over doorways on moulded timber brackets. Single ventilation slits to storage bay on left, dripstones. Two tiers of two ventilation slits to larger storage bay on right, obscured by later outshots to front and rear. 3 triangular vent holes to left gable end, ground floor obscured by later lean-to. Single triangular vent over ventilation slit with dripstone to imposing downhill right gable end.

Interior

Four bay barn with central stone flagged threshing floor, kerbstones on left, low rubble wall on right. 4 bay roof with three tie beam trusses with queen struts. Tie beam over threshing floor inscribed "TP 1828 TG". The timbers are heavy scantling and are intended to carry a stone roof, some of the principals, ties and purlins are probably C17.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a good example of a C17 barn reroofed in 1828 and having important group value with the farmhouse and the other listed buildings in the farmyard.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Bee Boles set into retaining wall at Upper House Farm
Located in the retaining wall in front of the upper end of the farmhouse.
II Upper House Farmhouse
Located at the end of a long farm track leading off the east side of the road up the Grwyne Valley 2.5 kilometres from the Five Crossroads. It is sited end on to the slope high on the valley side.
II Cartshed at Upper House Farm
Adjoining the former Malt House immediately behind the farmhouse.
II Former malthouse at Upper House Farm, including retaining wall to front
Located immediately behind the farmhouse. Set into the hillside at its upper end.
II* Ty-mawr Farmhouse
About 2.5km north of Forest Coal Pit. On the east side of the valley, reached by a lane which leaves the minor road to Grwyne Fawr reservoir near Tabernacle Baptist chapel.
II Bee bole at Ty-mawr Farm
In the garden wall immediately to the east of Ty-mawr,
II Barn Range at Ty-Mawr
About 20m to south of Ty Mawr Farmhouse, aligned roughly east-west across slope of ground, upper (east) end built into slope; lower end thus has two storeys.
II Y Coed including attached former byre
Approximately 0.8km NNE of Partrishow church, on E side of a minor road through Grwyne Fawr valley.

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Barn at Upper House Farm

A Grade II Listed Building in Crucorney (Crucornau Fawr), Monmouthshire