Hay Storage Building, Leighton Farm is a Grade II* listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 March 1998. Agricultural barn.

Hay Storage Building, Leighton Farm

WRENN ID
heavy-window-elm
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
20 March 1998
Type
Agricultural barn
Address
Hay Storage Building, Leighton Farm, Forden, Forden with Leighton and Trelystan
OS grid reference
SJ 242 052
Coordinates
52.63979, -3.12131
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Hay Storage Building at Leighton Farm is a 19th-century aisled barn featuring a vent ridge. It is constructed of brick above a random rubble basement, topped with a slate roof and has coped gables on moulded kneelers. The east gable end, which faces the farm road, includes a wide and tall round-headed doorway with stone imposts and a boarded gate set in vertical runners. On either side of the doorway are breathers arranged in lozenge patterns, and above it are three stepped round-headed windows fitted with louvres and boards. To the right of the doorway, steps lead down to the basement, which is enclosed by a coped brick wall and features a stable door.

The west gable end faces Stockyard III and is similar to the east end, but it has a blind arch in the center that contains a round-headed opening with louvres. In the basement, there are round-headed openings on the left and right, each with later boarded doors set in brick surrounds. The vent ridge on the north side has louvres, while the south side is covered with corrugated asbestos-cement sheets. The south wall also has breathers in lozenge patterns.

The ground floor is supported by timber beams and was originally designed to allow hay to be shoveled down to the basement and then taken out on the west side to Stockyard III.

Local climate

Hay Storage Building, Leighton Farm receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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