Barn at Garnllwyd is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 March 1990. Laundry.

Barn at Garnllwyd

WRENN ID
quartered-rood-ivory
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Constituency
Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
9 March 1990
Type
Laundry
Address
Barn at Garnllwyd, Llanfythin, Llancarfan
OS grid reference
ST 057 712
Coordinates
51.43278, -3.35785
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The barn at Garnllwyd is a 6-bay structure built from whitewashed rubble with a slate roof. It features central former barn door openings on both sides, with the opening on the southeast side being taller. This side faces the house and farmyard and has a later low range that projects to the left, which includes a cart-shed and a stone staircase against the gable end. There is a low chamber with a double door opening, a door, and one window.

On the rear elevation (southeast), to the right of the high central opening (where the original doors have been replaced by a glazed screen), there are a pair of double-glazed casements with false timber lintels that conceal concrete lintels behind, one at ground level and one at first floor level. The ground floor window has been inserted in place of a ventilation slit. The doors on the northwest side have also been replaced; there is a slit ventilator to the left and a doorway to the right with a cambered head. A similar door on the southeast side has been blocked by the addition of the lower range, and a new slit opening has been inserted above. There is a loft opening high up on the extreme right.

The gable ends are angled away from the side walls, suggesting earlier origins. The southwest gable has a modern casement window and a blocked pointed arch opening below; this wall has been rebuilt in blockwork and faced in stone. The northeast gable also features a modern casement at first floor level, with a pair of multi-paned French doors beneath. There is a chalybeate well located in the corner behind the lower range.

The barn has been subdivided and floored over as part of a recent residential conversion. The slit ventilators are broadly splayed, with one set at the end of a rectangular recess. The roof features king post trusses, along with some modern timbers.

Local climate

Barn at Garnllwyd 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 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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