Fodwen is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 May 2003. Farmhouse.

Fodwen

WRENN ID
slow-spandrel-azure
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wrexham
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
23 May 2003
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Fodwen, Llanarmon Estate, Ceiriog Ucha
OS grid reference
SJ 161 345
Coordinates
52.90197, -3.24786
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Fodwen is a two-storey farmhouse built in rubble stone, with the front and rear elevations whitewashed. It has a slate roof featuring rendered stone end stacks, with the right stack being external. To the left of the main house is a slightly lower range that includes a cart-shed and granary, which is covered with a corrugated asbestos roof.

The front of the house has an asymmetrical arrangement of openings. The entrance is located slightly to the right of the center and features a boarded door. There is a small brick porch with a shallow lean-to slate-covered roof. Flanking the entrance are two-light wooden casement windows with timber lintels, which have been renewed but likely fit the original openings. The upper storey has three narrower two-light casements located under the eaves.

The adjoining range includes a cart-shed opening to the left, which has a timber lintel, and a loft doorway to the right that is accessed by external stairs. There is also a two-light casement window with small-pane iron glazing on the west gable of this range.

At the rear of the house, there is a two-storey wing to the left and a long catslide lean-to to the right, the latter of which is probably from the 20th century. The rear inset doorway, which has a planked door, is located to the right at the end of the wing, and there is a wide 20th-century wooden window in the catslide. On the east side, there is a small window to the right of the external stack and small 20th-century windows on each storey of the wing.

Access to the interior was not available at the time of inspection.

Local climate

Fodwen receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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