Pen Twyn is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Pen Twyn
- WRENN ID
- weathered-render-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Pen Twyn, Michaelchurch Escley, HR2 0JZ
- OS grid reference
- SO 307 368
- Coordinates
- 52.02533, -3.01079
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pen Twyn is a farmhouse that likely dates from the late 17th century to the 18th century. It is constructed of rubble with a stone slate roof and features end stacks. The building has a two-room plan and stands two storeys high, with two windows on the front. The windows are regularly spaced and consist of 3-light 19th-century timber casements, with one to the left of the door and another to the right. There is a 2-light contemporary casement above the right-hand window on the first floor, and a 2-light 18th-century leaded casement above the left-hand window.
The central entrance is located under a gabled rubble porch and features a moulded door frame with an 18th-century ledged door. The left-hand gable has been raised and includes a small casement under a dripstone, while the rear wall has a 3-light chamfered mullioned window.
Inside, there is a plank and muntin screen with a ledged door. The left-hand room has a central beam with double ovolo moulding extending from the front to the back wall, and a cast-iron range on the end wall. The right-hand room features two longitudinal chamfered beams, an oak window seat in a deeply splayed window opening to the front, and a moulded stone fireplace with a dropped keystone dated "1789" on the end wall. A rubble stone newel stair to the left of the fireplace is lit by two small oak-framed lights positioned about one third and two thirds up the flight.
The upper right-hand room has a cast-iron fireplace from around 1870, while the upper left-hand cell is divided longitudinally into two small rooms. At the rear of the right-hand ground floor room, there is a local type half-truss extension, likely a pantry, accessed by a ledged door from the main room. The left end wall of the extension features a 4-light diamond section oak mullioned window with three main mullions and formerly four smaller diamond mullions.
Local climate
Pen Twyn receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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