Barn to N of Kemeys Manor is a Grade II listed building in the Newport local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 March 1963. Barn.
Barn to N of Kemeys Manor
- WRENN ID
- steep-porch-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newport
- Constituency
- Newport East MP: Jessica Morden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1963
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn to N of Kemeys Manor, Kemeys Inferior, Langstone
- OS grid reference
- ST 382 926
- Coordinates
- 51.62914, -2.89398
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The barn, dated 1597, is located to the north of Kemeys Manor and encloses the south end of a small yard, aligned on an east-west axis. It features four bays with elevations made of coursed rubble. The east end has a gabled roof, while the west end has a hipped roof covered with Roman tiles. The north elevation includes an off-centre, full-height doorway flanked by ventilation slots. The south elevation features a two-storey porch with a round-headed door surround made of dressed stone beneath a relieving arch. Above the doorway is a three-light, sunk-chamfered window with a hoodmould, although the outer two lights are now blocked. A datestone inscribed with "1597" is situated above this window, along with another similar two-light window above it. A flight of steep steps on the east side of the porch leads to another doorway. There is also a similarly blocked three-light window on the west side of the porch, and a partially blocked doorway on the west gable with a later hipped roof.
Internally, the barn shows evidence of a former first floor in the west end, with two large stop-chamfered beams that have mortises for joists remaining. A planked partition with a door leads to a loft above the porch. The original pegged "A" framed roof structure is still intact.
Attached to the northwest end of the barn is a single-storey byre range, with the east side open and supported by conical rubble columns, typical of the local style. There is also a four-bay 19th-century cartshed attached to the east end of the barn, and to the south of the cartshed is the remains of a further range, likely stables, of which only the south gable and parts of the east and west walls now stand. The yard is enclosed by a coursed rubble wall.
Local climate
Barn to N of Kemeys Manor receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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