Barn at Ysgafell is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 May 1988. Cowhouse.
Barn at Ysgafell
- WRENN ID
- still-nave-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1988
- Type
- Cowhouse
- Address
- Barn at Ysgafell, Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn
- OS grid reference
- SO 076 911
- Coordinates
- 52.51011, -3.36153
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The barn at Ysgafell is a 16th-century, six-bay, cruck-framed cowhouse that has been lofted. The front and side end walls are made of painted brick, while the rear elevation is timber framed and has undergone significant alterations. It features a steeply pitched, hipped slate roof with oversailing eaves. The barn has modern agricultural windows and plank doors.
Inside, there are five cruck trusses, with blades cut below the elbow to rest on the wallhead at the front. The through purlin collared full crucks have bow blades that are tennoned. The tie beams are secondary, and the original lower tie beams have been removed. The barn likely dates from the 17th century, coinciding with the insertion of the loft, and it originally had partitions and loft divisions, which have since been removed on the ground floor. The building may have originally been constructed as a barn.
Local climate
Barn at Ysgafell sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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