Cowhouse and Granary on W side of Farmyard at Dyffryn Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 May 1995. House.

Cowhouse and Granary on W side of Farmyard at Dyffryn Farm

WRENN ID
third-thatch-cobweb
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 May 1995
Type
House
Address
Cowhouse and Granary on W side of Farmyard at Dyffryn Farm, Meifod
OS grid reference
SJ 147 127
Coordinates
52.70608, -3.26256
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The building is a cowhouse dating from the 17th century, located on the west side of the farmyard at Dyffryn Farm. It features a timber frame with later brick noggings that have replaced the original laths, and it has a random jointed slate roof. The structure consists of six bays and has been extended towards the road by an additional building, likely originally a gig house, which now houses calves, along with a granary above that has approximately three bays. The square panel framing is raised 0.5 meters on stone sill walls. The infill brickwork is arranged with four missing headers that create a lozenge-shaped vent in each panel. There is a heavy bressumer, and the panels above are subdivided horizontally with a binding timber. A driftway runs through the fourth bay from the north. The northern gable has been rebuilt in blockwork and features a large opening.

The attached granary is constructed of brick, with a timber-framed upper floor and a stone-built gable facing the road and back wall. The cross floor beams are closely spaced, and there is no access to the roof.

The cowhouse has slightly jowled posts with straight corner braces to the tie beams, queen struts, and collars, along with angled struts to the principal rafters in the gables. There is a single tier of purlins and a diagonally set ridge. The truss on the north side of the driftway includes two windbraces, and there is another at the southern end. The southern bay has an inserted floor, and the gable wall features tension braces. Assembly marks have been made with a gouge.

Local climate

Cowhouse and Granary on W side of Farmyard at Dyffryn Farm receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% 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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