Upper Llaithddu Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 July 2004. Farmhouse.

Upper Llaithddu Farmhouse

WRENN ID
knotted-pinnacle-dew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 July 2004
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Upper Llaithddu Farmhouse, Llaethdy, Llanbadarn Fynydd
OS grid reference
SO 065 793
Coordinates
52.40434, -3.37508
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Upper Llaithddu Farmhouse is a 2-storey house featuring five windows, constructed from whitened rubble stone and topped with a corrugated asbestos-cement roof. The building has brick stacks at each end, and the openings are adorned with stone segmental heads. The central door is half-glazed but has been replaced. The windows are 12-pane sashes, with the left side being hornless and the right side horned. At the rear, there is a single-storey lean-to with a slate roof; the rear window is boarded up, and there is a small-pane window on the right side. Additionally, there is a 20th-century lean-to and workshop made of corrugated iron on the left side.

Local climate

Upper Llaithddu Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 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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