Barn/Cowhouse Range to Craffryn is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 June 1993. Farm range.

Barn/Cowhouse Range to Craffryn

WRENN ID
drifting-hinge-stoat
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
17 June 1993
Type
Farm range
Address
Barn/Cowhouse Range to Craffryn, Llanfihangel Rhydithon
OS grid reference
SO 147 664
Coordinates
52.2891, -3.25095
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Craffryn features a long, low farm range that includes a barn, cowhouse, and wainhouse, all under a single, steeply-pitched roof. The structure has a low rubble plinth and weatherboarded stud-walls, topped with a tin roof. On the north-west side, there are four boarded doors. The south-east elevation has an open-fronted wainhouse to the right of the barn and a part rubble-walled cowhouse end to the left.

The barn dates from the 18th century and consists of three bays with a central stone-flagged threshing floor. There is a single doorway that leads up steps on the north-west side. Inside, the barn features simple tie-beam trusses with angle braces, stud partition infill with horizontal boarding, and a low sole plate. The heavy stud-walls, which include diagonal braces interrupting the studs, extend into the cowhouse end and incorporate re-used box-framing timbers.

The cowhouse, also from the 18th century, has a cobbled floor, boarded stalls, ties for eleven animals, a transverse feeding passage, and a loose-box bay. The wainhouse was added later, possibly in the 19th century.

Local climate

Barn/Cowhouse Range to Craffryn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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