Barn and cow house at Middle Nantserth is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 December 2004. Barn, cow house.
Barn and cow house at Middle Nantserth
- WRENN ID
- low-mantel-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 December 2004
- Type
- Barn, cow house
- Address
- Barn and cow house at Middle Nantserth, St. Harmon
- OS grid reference
- SN 969 699
- Coordinates
- 52.3183, -3.51308
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The building is a barn with a higher cow house located on the eastern side, dating from the 19th century. The barn features a timber frame set on a rubble-stone plinth, while the cow house is constructed entirely of rubble stone, both covered by corrugated iron roofs. On the southern side, which originally faced the yard but is now enclosed within a larger stock shed, the timber framing of the barn is visible, and there is a single wide doorway. A rubble-stone shed has been added to the left gable end. At the right end of the barn, there is a boarded door to the byng, which is set back from the line of the cow house. The cow house includes two lintelled doorways and a loft opening. A vertical joint indicates that the cow house was extended on the eastern side in the later 19th century and features brick quoins. The eastern gable end, facing the yard, has a split boarded door within a brick surround and a weatherboarded gable with a split boarded loft door. On the right side, there is an outshut that was formerly a root store, which has a door with brick jambs. Behind it is another outshut that was used for housing calves. The rear of the barn is clad in corrugated iron.
Inside, the four-bay barn retains three unevenly spaced cruck trusses. The outer cruck trusses appear to have been framed and infilled, suggesting that they may have originally formed part of a two-bay barn.
Local climate
Barn and cow house at Middle Nantserth sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 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 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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