Straw Barn at Cwm is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 1953. Barn.
Straw Barn at Cwm
- WRENN ID
- silver-frieze-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1953
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Straw Barn at Cwm, Cilmawr, Meifod
- OS grid reference
- SJ 187 145
- Coordinates
- 52.72258, -3.20443
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Straw Barn at Cwm is a late 19th-century structure made of stone, topped with a random slate roof. It features five bays supported by high circular stone columns situated between the end gable walls, which have short returns. The tie is supported by a central post with long struts and includes a short queen strut along with a single tier of purlins. The underside of the roof covering is fully torched.
Local climate
Straw Barn at Cwm receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% 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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