Barn at Pen y bryn

Small barn. Local rubble stone (the small size suggesting field clearance or quarry waste), to rear and upper gable end, and to plinth elsewhere. Traces of timber-framing on front wall (now largely opened out and with 3 wide double doorways), and over plinth to lower gable, where it is clad in corrugated iron. Artificial slate roof. Rear elevation has small lean-to extension towards right (down-hill side), with three doorways in the long wall above it, and one below giving access to the lower storage bay. The openings (and that in the lean-to itself) all have cambered brick heads; plank doors are recent, though in traditional style. Small loading door to loft in upper gable.

3 bay interior; the upper bay now partitioned off. Cruck truss between central and upper bay, with tie beam, and king-post to slightly cambered collar. Traces of partition, with two posts below the tie-beam, and sill. Queen-post and collar truss between central and lower bays, with remains of partition including central post, and sill beam on stone plinth. Elements of framing to front wall survive, including jowled wall-post associated with this central truss, though the tie-beam rests on the stone wall to the rear. Two tiers of purlins and ridge beam. Lower gable end is also timber-framed, and has queen-strut truss; lapped vertical boarding as cladding. The lower bay is stepped down to accommodate to the sloping ground, and only accessed via external rear doorway. Upper bay partitioned and storeyed (though probably originally lofted), with modern glazing with timber mullions to front wall.