Barn range at Plas is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 August 1998. Barn.

Barn range at Plas

WRENN ID
hollow-ashlar-lark
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
21 August 1998
Type
Barn
Address
Barn range at Plas, Llangors, Powys
OS grid reference
SO 137 275
Coordinates
51.94006, -3.25657
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The barn range at Plas is a large L-shaped structure dating from the 19th century. It consists of a long range that backs onto the lane and a return that faces the farmhouse, incorporating an entrance to the rectangular farmyard. The building is constructed of limewashed stone rubble, featuring a Welsh slate roof on the long range and a stone tile roof on the return, with inward-facing pitches that are corrugated.

The long range includes a barn to the west with two rows of ventilation slits, one of which is blocked on the roadside. It has high opposing double doors with a gabled porch roof facing the lane, as well as a cart shed wing to the east that features two wide bays with timber lintels and a hayloft above, facing the farmyard. The return range has a hipped roof at an angle, topped with a weathervane, and a roughly central double doorway that serves as the entrance to the farmyard, along with a pitching door in the gable end.

Inside, the roadside range has a stone threshing floor and features trusses with tie beams, some struts, and three rows of trenched purlins, which have been partly renewed. The return range has pegged collar and tie trusses with three rows of trenched purlins, and the interior is divided both vertically and horizontally, with part of it used as a cowshed.

Local climate

Barn range at Plas sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% 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 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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