Barn And Cow Shed With Attached Cart Shed And Pig Sty About 20 Yards South West Of Rhydybach Farmhouse

The building is a barn and cow shed with an attached cart shed and pig sty, located about 20 yards south-west of Rhydybach Farmhouse. It dates from the early 19th century and is constructed of rubble and timber-frame with weatherboards, featuring stone slate and corrugated asbestos roofs. The structure includes a three-bay threshing barn aligned north-west to south-east, with a three-bay cow house incorporated at the south-east end. The cart shed and pig sty are attached to the north-east end of the barn, creating an L-shaped plan.

The barn is clad on the north-east side with large stone slabs and on the south-west side in weatherboarding. It has two large buttresses on the south-west side, positioned on either side of full-height doors leading to the threshing floor in the second bay from the north-west end. The framing consists of two panels high from a rubble base to the wall-plate. The cow house features three evenly placed ledged doors facing north-east and a loft opening in the rubble gable end with holes for four-light diamond section mullions.

Inside, both the barn and cow house have raking strut trusses. The cart shed overlaps the north-east side of the barn at right angles and has two posts forming three bays with pegged half-raking-strut trusses. The pig sty, likely built in the early 19th century, includes two east-facing feeding trap openings and is clad with large stone slabs.