Cow house and barn at Llwyn-cus is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 October 2000. Farm building.

Cow house and barn at Llwyn-cus

WRENN ID
ancient-finial-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 October 2000
Type
Farm building
Address
Cow house and barn at Llwyn-cus, Llanlleonfel, Treflys
OS grid reference
SN 928 506
Coordinates
52.14396, -3.56796
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The building is a multi-purpose L-shaped farm range that includes a cow house and stable on the southwest side, and a barn and cart shed at right angles to it, creating a small yard on the east side. The gable ends and the outer wall of the cow house are made of rubble stone, while the rest of the structure is primarily simple box framing with elm weatherboarding on a rubble stone sill. The entire building has a slate roof.

Facing the yard, the cow house features five boarded doors and a loft door. At the left end, there is a stable door with a loft opening above it. The rear of the cow house has three manure-pitching holes with boarded shutters, though the original lintels have been removed. An added outshut is located further to the right. The barn, facing the yard, has full-height boarded doors at the angle with the stable. To the left of these doors is a blockwork outshut with a slate roof, built on the foundation of a 19th-century pigsty.

The left gable end of the barn has a weatherboarded gable over rubble stone walls and a boarded loft door. On the opposite side wall, the barn has replaced full-height double doors, and to the left of these, an original cart shed opening has been infilled with blockwork, as has the outshut at the lower end.

Both the cow house and barn feature roofs supported by tie beams with raking struts. Inside the barn, the threshing bay retains stone flags with oak boards in the center, and the stable retains three wooden stalls.

Local climate

Cow house and barn at Llwyn-cus sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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