Barn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 January 1996. Cottage.
Barn Cottage
- WRENN ID
- bitter-casement-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 January 1996
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Barn Cottage, Llowes, Glasbury
- OS grid reference
- SO 191 416
- Coordinates
- 52.06753, -3.18084
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Barn Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage built with rubble stonework that was once whitewashed, topped with a stone slate roof. The cottage has two bays, featuring a living room with an external gable stack and a service room at the northern end. The central entrance has a boarded door, and there are timber 4-pane casement windows, all with timber lintels. At the uphill end, there is an added lean-to that is slightly set back, which contains a storeroom and features a boarded door and a corrugated asbestos roof. At the rear, there is one small window serving the upper end room. Inside, a matchboarded draught screen protects the living room from the door.
Local climate
Barn Cottage receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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