Barn with Horse Engine House at Bank Farm, Welshpool, Powys

Coordinates

Latitude: 52.7091 / 52°42'32"N

Longitude: -3.0975 / 3°5'51"W

OS Eastings: 325946

OS Northings: 312944

OS Grid: SJ259129

Mapcode National: GBR B2.2G28

Mapcode Global: WH79J.D57H

Plus Code: 9C4RPW52+JX

Entry Name: Barn with Horse Engine House at Bank Farm

Listing Date: 29 February 1996

Last Amended: 29 February 1996

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 16740

Building Class: Agriculture and Subsistence

ID on this website: 300016740

Location: In the yard at Bank Farm, which is immediately W of the Montgomeryshire Canal, adjacent to Bank Lock, 4km. approx N of Welshpool.

County: Powys

Community: Welshpool (Y Trallwng)

Community: Welshpool

Locality: Bank

Traditional County: Montgomeryshire

Tagged with: Barn

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History

The barn range appears to be one of the earliest buildings at Bank Farm - most of the farm buildings and the house itself were built or rebuilt in the later C19. The barn is probably early C19, and the engine house is thought to have been added to it c1840, providing the motive power for threshing etc. The horse-engine probably continued in use until c1900-1910 and was then replaced by a petrol engine.

Exterior

Barn range has a light timber framing with horizontal plank cladding and slate roof. Horse engine house has well-coursed and squared local rubble walls and graded slate roof. Barn range is built on a slight slope, and divided into a series of bays which originally represented threshing floor and storage bays. Horse-engine house projects from its N wall, but is structurally independent of it: curved in plan, the walls are equally divided into 7 bays housing doorway to SE and a series of square openings: shafting formerly lead into barn via a hole cut in its wall.

Interior

Rough king-post trusses to barn roof; engine house has massive crossbeam braced to the external walls; and supporting a king-post truss. None of the early machinery survives, but there are remains of line-shafting in the barn.

Reasons for Listing

A rare surviving example of a horse-engine house with its associated barn.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Bank Lock
Immediately S of the bridge that carries Coppice Lane over the Montgomeryshire Canal, E of Bank Farm, 4km approx N of Welshpool
II Bridge 109 over the Montgomeryshire Canal
Carries Coppice Lane over the canal immediately W of the A483 at Bank, 4km approx N of Welshpool.
II Cabin Lock
On the Montgomeryshire Canal between Crowther Hall and Bank Locks.
II Tanhouse Bridge
Canal bridge No.108 over the Montgomeryshire Canal.
II Crowther Hall
Alongside the A483, 500m approx. N of the church at Pool Quay.
II Bridge 110 over the Montgomeryshire Canal
At the N end of Crowther Hall Lock, which is immediately W of Crowther Hall.
II Lock Cottage at Crowther Hall Lock
On the W side of Crowther Hall Lock, which is immediately W of Crowther Hall.
II Crowther Hall Lock
On the Montgomeryshire Canal immediately W of Crowther Hall.

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Barn with Horse Engine House at Bank Farm

A Grade II Listed Building in Welshpool, Powys