Barn And Cow House About 20 Yards North East Of Great Cefyn Farmhouse

This building is a barn and cow house dating from the 17th century, located about 20 yards northeast of Great Cefyn Farmhouse. It is constructed of rubble with a corrugated iron roof and consists of two sections: a four-bay barn to the west and an adjoining cow house with a loft to the east.

The barn features a small two-light oak mullioned window in the west bay, along with ventilator slits arranged in two rows, four on either side of the main south entrance. This entrance includes one of two sets of opposed ledged full-height double doors located in the third bay from the west end. There is also an additional entrance in the west bay to the right of the small window, which has a 19th-century ledged door leading into a cot.

The cow house section to the east has three matching entrances, each with plain tiled hoods and pegged and chamfered oak door frames. The central entrance is dated "1677" on its lintel, and two of the entrances have ledged doors.

Inside the barn, there are two types of A-frame raking strut trusses: one type has two vertical posts extending from the tie to the collar, while the other type has none. Each slope has three sets of purlins that appear to continue with overlaps through the east rubble wall into the cow house loft. The rubble wall reaches nearly to tie-beam level and contains a blocked opening with an oak lintel just above ground level. In the west bay, there is a cot that occupies half the depth and the entire width of the bay, partitioned off on the north and east sides by light studs and posts.

The cow house includes a loft (not inspected) as well as stalls and troughs, likely from the 19th century, and seems to be an extension of the barn. The incised calligraphic "1677" on the lintel of the central entrance is closely related to a building of similar date at Lower House Farm. The Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, Volume I, refers to the cow house as stables, which is unusual given the low height of the entrances.