Tympanum in garden wall at Home Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 September 2004. Tympanum. 1 related planning application.

Tympanum in garden wall at Home Farm

WRENN ID
outer-vestry-scarlet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
3 September 2004
Type
Tympanum
Address
Tympanum in garden wall at Home Farm, Abbey Cwmhir, LD1 6PH
OS grid reference
SO 054 711
Coordinates
52.33023, -3.38846
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The tympanum in the garden wall at Home Farm is made of freestone and is designed to fit within a cusped pointed arch. It features a high relief depiction of the Ascension. This tympanum is set into a coped rubble-stone garden wall that is approximately 20 meters long. The wall retains the farm yard, which is on higher ground to the north side, and it is accompanied by modern steel railings.

Local climate

Tympanum in garden wall at Home Farm sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 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 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% 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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