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