The Long Barn and attached courtyard wall, gates and railings is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 11 June 1977. Bridge.
The Long Barn and attached courtyard wall, gates and railings
- WRENN ID
- sheer-transept-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1977
- Type
- Bridge
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Long stable range aligned roughly E/W, now divided into 3 dwellings and extended to W. Built of stone with stuccoed cladding; Welsh slate roof with half-hips. Single storey and loft to E extending to 2 storeys at W. The main frontage faces N with cambered arched openings to ground floor, 8/8 pane casement windows or louvres directly under eaves above. 3 main units. The uphill (E or left) unit comprises former stables with hayloft and has a range of 4 louvres to former loft, 4 louvred ventilators with finials to roof above, 4 ground floor casements and centre round-arched doorway, plus a former tack room to right comprising a separate doorway and a single window on each floor. Central unit, former coach house, comprises the two adjacent coach entrances, double to right, and a single doorway end right, 3 casement windows above. End unit right, The Cottage, former coachman's residence, has a central round-arched doorway flanked by windows, with 3 windows above, the central one narrow of 6 panes. Bolted ties visible below eaves. Extending at right angles at end right (NW) is a high section of the former courtyard wall, built of limewashed rubble with flat stone coping; it returns on higher ground to form a low boundary wall with replaced entrance gates and railings and piers at each end, relating to its former function as an approach from New House. To rear of main building is an asymmetrical range of mostly casement windows, 2 lateral stacks, added roof lights.
Interior now converted into 3 dwellings. Woodwork of A-frame roof trusses reported as made of red oak and numbered, with some timbers apparently re-used.
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