Barn at Pen-y-Lan is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 June 1995. House.

Barn at Pen-y-Lan

WRENN ID
sombre-beam-moon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
20 June 1995
Type
House
Address
Barn at Pen-y-Lan, Wenallt, Llanigon, Powys
OS grid reference
SO 227 390
Coordinates
52.04436, -3.12747
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The barn at Pen-y-Lan is a Grade II listed building featuring a combination of stone and timber-framing with weatherboarding and a corrugated iron roof. The timber-framing consists of two heights of sub-rectangular panels set above high stone plinths, with some of the weatherboarding appearing to be ancient. On the northeast side, the year '1671 IB' is carved into the lintel above the barn doors. The byre includes a 17th-century oak-mullioned five-light window, although one mullion is missing, and it retains its original chamfered doorframe. There is a lean-to addition on posts that has since fallen down.

On the southwest side, the byre features a doorframe similar to the one previously mentioned, along with a window and vent located under stone labels. There is also a stone lean-to addition to the barn. The structure does not have a structural division between the barn and the byre, with the byre comprising 2.5 bays. The barn consists of six bays with three or four tiers of stout purlins and trusses that have collars in the byre. The barn itself has three trusses with cambered tiebeams, two of which end short on posts on the southwest side, one of these being a tree with a forked top, and there are raking braces above the tiebeams.

Local climate

Barn at Pen-y-Lan sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% 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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