Barn at Rhyd y Carw is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 November 2004. Barn.

Barn at Rhyd y Carw

WRENN ID
final-sentry-crimson
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
18 November 2004
Type
Barn
Address
Barn at Rhyd y Carw, Trefeglwys
OS grid reference
SN 957 907
Coordinates
52.5046, -3.53728
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The barn at Rhyd y Carw is a single-storey structure built on a high stone plinth. The north wall and east gable end are covered with weatherboarding, while the south wall and west gable end are clad in corrugated iron, which hides the original box panelling. The roof is also covered with corrugated iron sheeting. The external openings reflect the barn's agricultural use; on the north side, there is a central doorway leading to the threshing floor, which features a single boarded door accessed by stone steps. On the south side, there is a boarded hatch that may have ventilated the threshing floor, along with a wide cart-bay opening to the left that has a door made of corrugated iron sheeting. Additionally, there is a narrow door and a loft hatch on the east gable end.

Inside, the barn has three well-preserved cruck trusses that frame the hall. The central truss is arched-braced and has nail-head decoration on the underside, while the outer trusses feature collars. At the east end, a tie-beam has slots for a former post-and-panel partition that included a single doorway, behind which was the parlour. The smaller service rooms were located at the west end, behind a passage partition that is now missing. Other internal features related to the barn's agricultural use include partly surviving boarded partitions, the threshing bay with a raised oak floor, and mangers in the west bay.

Local climate

Barn at Rhyd y Carw sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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