Cwarelau and Barn Adjoining to North is a Grade II* listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. A C16-C20 Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Cwarelau and Barn Adjoining to North
- WRENN ID
- carved-railing-saffron
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Cwarelau and Barn Adjoining to North, HR2 0QT
- OS grid reference
- SO 341 316
- Coordinates
- 51.97912, -2.95984
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cwarelau and the barn adjoining to the north are a farmhouse and barn with origins dating back to the 16th century or earlier. The building was likely extended in the 17th century and again in the 20th century. It features a timber-frame structure with coursed rubble and a roof made of concrete tiles and corrugated iron. There are two stacks: one located to the left center of the front range and another at the rear of the cross-wing.
The north elevation now resembles a longhouse, consisting of a single storey with an attic. There is a stack positioned left of center, with four-light late 19th-century casements on the left side. To the right, there are three ledged 17th-century doors leading to the cow house, and an entry immediately to the right of the stack features a ledged door under a pegged and chamfered door-frame.
Attached to the north-east is a three-bay barn with a corrugated iron roof and a lean-to extension for a calf pen located to the south-west at the junction with the farmhouse. Inside, there is a through-passage backing onto the stack, with local type newel stairs to the north. The interior also includes plank and muntin screens with chamfers, segmental-headed openings, and ledged doors that divide the rooms. Similar partitions are found on the cow house side, with a local type longitudinal division behind a blocked four-light diamond-section oak-mullioned window to the west of the front door. Cruck blades extend into the roof space above the principal room to the east of the stack.
The rear 17th-century wing features deep run-out stop chamfers on heavy beams. At the junction of the L-shaped layout is a short four-bay cruck part, which may have been later extended across what became a through-passage to form a longhouse by the addition of a cow house, possibly in the 17th century. Around the same time, the early house was extended south with the addition of a two-storey cross-wing and a granary added on the north side.
Local climate
Cwarelau and Barn Adjoining to North 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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- 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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