Barn at Lower Hengoed is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 1995. Lodge.
Barn at Lower Hengoed
- WRENN ID
- still-corbel-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1995
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Barn at Lower Hengoed, Gladestry
- OS grid reference
- SO 226 533
- Coordinates
- 52.17317, -3.13279
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The barn at Lower Hengoed is a 17th-century cruck barn that has been re-walled and extended with a byre in the 18th century. It features four bays, including a threshing bay with doors at eaves height. The structure has a low rubble plinth, is weatherboarded above, has rubble stone gable end walls, and an iron roof with boarded byre doors.
Inside, there are three full cruck trusses that are butt jointed at the apex. One truss has a notched, lap-jointed collar, while all have wall posts pegged to the back of the blades and mortices for short notch lap-jointed wall ties. The original wall framing has been replaced with stud walls that include intersecting braces. The original extent of the barn may have formed the end wall of a three-day barn. At the lower end, there is a two-bay byre featuring low stone mangers, a feeding passage with boarded sides, chamfered tie posts, and a rough pole loft floor.
Local climate
Barn at Lower Hengoed receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% 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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