Village Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 January 1996. Farmhouse.
Village Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-tin-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 January 1996
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Village Farmhouse, Boughrood, Glasbury
- OS grid reference
- SO 128 392
- Coordinates
- 52.04452, -3.27273
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Village Farmhouse is a 19th-century building constructed of colourwashed stone with tiled roofs. It has one storey and an attic, featuring an 'L'-shaped plan. The main range, which has four bays, is oriented gable end to the road, while a two-bay rear wing with a gable stack is set against the road, creating an enclosed farmyard in the angle. The farmhouse has a central gabled porch, 19th-century six-paned sash windows, and three closely spaced raised gabled dormers at the center. A gable stack is present, and the rear wing has battered stone walls with 20th-century fenestration, including small openings on the ground floor and a long raised window on the upper floor.
Inside, the main door opens into a cross passage that was previously separated from the living room by a lightweight partition, which has since been removed. This passage is located within the two eastern bays. The interior features two ovolo-moulded cross beams and a large gable stack with a cupboard that may have served as a smoking chamber on the right side. On the left, there is a stone spiral stair with original small windows in the gable and rear walls. The western half of the main range was originally two rooms, each with a central hollow-chamfered cross beam, and jowled posts that remain on the front and back walls. The rear wing, now functioning as the kitchen, includes a gable stack and a spiral stair to one side, along with two chamfered cross beams.
The roof of the main range is supported by four trusses, with principals rising from stub ties that carry two tiers of purlins, and they are tenoned at the apex; it is not cruck as previously noted. There is no evidence of smoke blackening. The roof of the rear wing features a scissor-laced gable against the main house, which is now hipped, and it also has two tiers of purlins, although the carpentry is of lower quality.
Local climate
Village Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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