Dyffryn Farmhouse, (including railings, dwarf walls and gate piers at splayed entrance) is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 May 1995. Commercial premises. 1 related planning application.

Dyffryn Farmhouse, (including railings, dwarf walls and gate piers at splayed entrance)

WRENN ID
calm-niche-ridge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 May 1995
Type
Commercial premises
Address
Dyffryn Farmhouse, (including railings, dwarf walls and gate piers at splayed entrance), Meifod, SY22 6DF
OS grid reference
SJ 148 128
Coordinates
52.70673, -3.26203
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Dyffryn Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century and early 19th century. It features rendered stone, timber framing, and slate roofs. The earlier part of the farmhouse, located at the rear, is a low one-storey building with an attic, consisting of three bays and set parallel to the road. This section has a jettied and close-studded timber-framed upper floor, supported by rendered masonry on the ground floor and a rendered stone gable end. The eastern gable is painted to reflect the internal decorative framing, which includes an original decorative apex panel with convex braces. The roof is slate-covered, and there is a stack on the western gable end.

In front of this earlier section, connected by a lower link building, is an early 19th-century symmetrical block made of polygonal local stonework, also with a slated roof. This two-storey structure has three bays and features a central porch supported by paired Tuscan columns, which hold up a small hipped slate roof. Flanking the porch are canted multi-paned bay windows. The upper floor contains three-light windows on either side of a central two-light window, all of which are multi-paned and have painted wedge lintels. A prominent central brick stack with three close-set flues and dentilled offsets is also present.

The early 19th-century splayed entrance, located directly off the A.490 and symmetrically opposite the house, consists of low ashlar stone walls and terminal gatepiers with weathered copings. These support short iron javelin-headed railings and intermediate dog-rails. The wall stops short on the southwest side to allow for a pedestrian entrance with a matching gate. This entrance is important to the setting of Dyffryn Farmhouse.

Local climate

Dyffryn Farmhouse, (including railings, dwarf walls and gate piers at splayed entrance) receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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