Service Building at Mathafarn is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 August 2004. Service building.
Service Building at Mathafarn
- WRENN ID
- dark-rubble-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 5 August 2004
- Type
- Service building
- Address
- Service Building at Mathafarn, Glantwymyn
- OS grid reference
- SH 807 044
- Coordinates
- 52.62496, -3.76344
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The service building at Mathafarn is a single-storey structure made of rubble stone, showing traces of lime-wash, and sits on a boulder plinth beneath a slate roof. It features a stone stack at the northern end. The entrance is located to the left of the east side and includes a planked door, with a three-light wooden window to the right. The outer gable end has a two-light wooden window set beneath a segmental yellow brick head. Inside, the building consists of a one-unit layout with two brick ovens located on the northern wall.
Local climate
Service Building at Mathafarn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% 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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