L-shaped Agricultural Range at Parc

This is a long, L-shaped agricultural range situated at Parc, consisting of two conjoined barns and a lower, three-bay carthouse addition to the northeast. The main barn, forming the long arm of the ‘L’, is constructed of local rubble with exceptionally fine slate ashlar dressings. It's joined to a later barn, which is flush and continuously roofed. A former carthouse block adjoins the main barn to the northeast. The roofs are modern slate, featuring fine overlapping slab-coped gable parapets, double-shaped kneelers, and coved eaves. Traces of lime render are visible under the eaves and around the entrance of the older barn.

The primary barn has a central entrance, while the northeast entrance to the older portion is original, and the southwest entrance is a modern reconstruction based on the original. The southwest entrance features a wide, slightly-pointed, segmentally-arched opening with slatestone ashlar voussoirs and quoins, topped with a moulded dripstone supported on corbels reminiscent of a returned label, and modern boarded doors. Above the northeast entrance is a two-light mullioned window with an original ovolo-moulded slate mullion; evidence of former bars remains on the soffit. Two pairs of ventilation slits flank the entrance on each floor.

The later barn section has a central entrance with a slate lintel and dressed voussoirs, bearing a graffito reading “ET 1840”, and a modern entrance to the right with boarded doors. To the left of the primary entrance is a vertical ventilation slit, with five further similar slits on the upper floor. External stepped access leads to a raised loading bay on the gable end, featuring a modern boarded door. An opposing entrance is located at the rear, along with ventilation slits and a modern eight-pane casement window.

The carthouse block, adjoining the main barn, is built using similar materials and features monolithic slatestone piers dividing the bays facing the farmyard, and a slab-coped gable parapet with curved kneelers.

Inside the primary barn, you’ll find chamfered oak tie-beam trusses with vertical struts. Most of the purlins and rafters have been replaced. Trusses near the entrance bay show signs of having been formerly closed above the tiebeam and ceiled below; the right-hand truss also has a groove on its underside, indicating a former post-and-panel partition. The dividing floor was removed early on, though evidence of its existence remains.