Pentrusco Farmhouse and attached agricultural range. is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 December 1996. Farmhouse.
Pentrusco Farmhouse and attached agricultural range.
- WRENN ID
- shifting-cinder-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1996
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Pentrusco Farmhouse and attached agricultural range., Heyop, Beguildy
- OS grid reference
- SO 243 742
- Coordinates
- 52.36076, -3.11195
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Pentrusco Farmhouse is a 18th-century farmhouse with an attached cow house, forming an L-shaped plan. The farmhouse is constructed of whitewashed rubble stone with a hipped tile roof. The three-storey front has a central boarded door, now sheltered by an added canopy. It has three windows across the front, with a two-light window under a segmental head to the left of the door and a two-light window under a lintel to the right. The middle storey features two-light windows on each side, plus a smaller fixed landing window in the centre, all except for the right-hand window having segmental heads. The upper storey has a small casement to the right under the eaves, and a smaller casement to the left added in the 1990s. A lean-to addition to the left end of the farmhouse has a two-light casement in the lower storey and a small fixed attic window, with a boarded door and a two-light casement below the eaves on its side wall. The rear of the farmhouse includes a shallow outshut, rebuilt of rendered brick on an earlier stone plinth, with two pointed windows featuring Y-tracery and small-pane iron-frame casements. A late 20th-century projection on the left side of the house, against the right side wall and behind the farm range, conceals a narrow stair window.
The cow house is part timber-framed with weatherboarded front, a stone gable end with a lean-to (currently under reconstruction) and a corrugated iron roof. Facing the yard, it has three boarded doors and a loft opening. The rear wall is a combination of rubble stone and corrugated iron.
Inside the farmhouse, despite its symmetrical front, elements of a traditional hall plan remain. The entrance hall features a lateral fireplace with a timber lintel and a single stopped spine beam. A timber-framed partition separates the hall from a small inner room, behind which is the stair. The dog-leg staircase has plain balusters and a newel to the middle landing, but lacks balusters on the upper landing. A boarded door and stone steps provide access to a cellar beneath the stair, and the lower landing retains old floorboards. The roof structure incorporates tie beams with diagonal struts.
The cow house retains visible timber framing, king-post roof trusses with raking struts, pole joists to lofted areas, and stalls. The floors are a combination of cobbled and stone flagged surfaces.
Local climate
Pentrusco Farmhouse and attached agricultural range. receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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