Circular cow-house at Gwaunclawdd is a Grade II* listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 January 1963. Cow-house.
Circular cow-house at Gwaunclawdd
- WRENN ID
- salt-chamber-spring
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1963
- Type
- Cow-house
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Cow-house, rubble stone with slate roofs, a two storey inner cylinder with conical roof and 2 lean-tos with sloping roofs, divided by opposed entrances to the inner cylinder. Conical roof has leaded ball finial. Entrance bays have a broad loft door with timber lintel and double boarded doors over narrower ground floor door with stone voussoirs. The encircling lean-tos have blank walls, the end walls splayed into the entrances to centre cylinder, the angles curved. Extensive areas of collapse.
Central section has cobbled ground floor and loft over. Four cambered-headed doors from centre to outer lean-tos, i.e a total of ten openings all around including the opposed doors. Lean-tos also had cobble floors with drainage channels. Conical roof has radial tie-beams to king-post with raking struts. Lean-tos have tie-beams and rafter roofs.
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