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Barn at Wern Tarw

A Grade II Listed Building in Coychurch Higher (Llangrallo Uchaf), Bridgend

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5497 / 51°32'59"N

Longitude: -3.5005 / 3°30'1"W

OS Eastings: 296052

OS Northings: 184495

OS Grid: SS960844

Mapcode National: GBR HH.FQ6M

Mapcode Global: VH5HD.89RT

Plus Code: 9C3RGFXX+VQ

Entry Name: Barn at Wern Tarw

Listing Date: 13 November 1997

Last Amended: 13 November 1997

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 19050

Building Class: Agriculture and Subsistence

ID on this website: 300019050

Location: Located at right angles to a narrow lane at the base of the foothills of the Mynydd y Gaer. The associated farmhouse is to the S.

County: Bridgend

Community: Coychurch Higher (Llangrallo Uchaf)

Community: Coychurch Higher

Locality: Wern Tarw

Traditional County: Glamorgan

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History

A small stone above the front entrance carries an engraved date of 1804. The layout, with its aligned front and rear entrances, is typical of a C18 - early C19 barn used for storing and threshing corn.

Exterior

Barn with centrally-placed doorways to front and rear. Random rubble with stone dressings, under a stone-tiled roof, except for one small section of corrugated asbestos-cement. The wide doorways are under segmental arches with voussoirs. They are flanked by ventilation slits. The front (E) doorway contains C20 planked double doors. The ventilation slit to the R is blocked. To the rear is an added lean-to porch with a corrugated asbestos-cement roof. The doorway has planked doors. The S and N gable ends each have a ventilation slit in the gable and a second blocked slit below.

Interior

Five-bay interior with simple king-post roof. The barn is now used as a sheep pen.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a well preserved and large corn barn reflecting the end of the period before the mechanisation of agriculture. Group value with the farmhouse and cowhouse to the S.

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