Prest-dabuan barn with attached cow house is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 November 2000. Barn, cow house. 2 related planning applications.

Prest-dabuan barn with attached cow house

WRENN ID
old-dormer-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
14 November 2000
Type
Barn, cow house
Address
Prest-dabuan barn with attached cow house, LD1 6ND
OS grid reference
SN 999 606
Coordinates
52.235, -3.46609
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Prest-dabuan is a timber-framed barn situated on a rubble stone platform, topped with a slate roof that is partly missing. The walls feature simple box-framing, with brick nogging on the eastern wall facing the field and weatherboarding on the other sides, which is now partly missing. The eastern wall includes double boarded doors beneath a wooden lintel, while the western wall has a lower winnowing doorway. The southern gable end is connected to a rubble stone cow house that has a corrugated iron roof. On the western side, which faces a former track, there is a wide full-height opening. The gable end features a loft opening under a wooden lintel, and the eastern side has two lintelled manure-pitching holes.

Inside, the barn retains two pairs of cruck trusses, spaced wider than the central threshing bay. These crucks have lap-jointed collars and beams that indicate the presence of former upper floors. The cow house contains a simple, crudely worked truss and has a partly cobbled floor. A former loft in the cow house has been removed.

Local climate

Prest-dabuan barn with attached cow house sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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