Upper Wernddu is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1986. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Upper Wernddu
- WRENN ID
- fallow-vault-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Upper Wernddu, Longtown, HR2 0ED
- OS grid reference
- SO 348 292
- Coordinates
- 51.95807, -2.94901
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Upper Wernddu is a farmhouse with an adjoining outbuilding, dating from the 17th century, with later alterations and additions from the late 19th and 20th centuries. The structure is built of sandstone rubble, painted on the main house, and features a 19th-century tiled roof, while the adjoining outbuilding has a corrugated metal roof. The building has a rectangular plan with a lobby entry, oriented east to west, and includes an east gable-end stack. The outbuilding is attached to the east, with additional minor later additions at the rear.
The farmhouse is two storeys high with attics. The entrance front has three 3-light casement windows that show signs of hoodmoulds and the positions of former mullions. To the right of the doorway, there is a window with a 19th-century cambered head, alongside a heavy wooden framed doorway with a segmental head and a battened door. The left-hand return retains a 3-light diamond wooden mullioned window.
Inside, the interior has been altered but still features chamfered ceiling beams and a segmental-headed doorway. There may also be traces of a stone winder staircase against the main stack. The adjoining outbuilding on the left has four triangular vents and a square-headed doorway.
Local climate
Upper Wernddu receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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