Upper Rectory Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 October 1953. Farmhouse.

Upper Rectory Farmhouse

WRENN ID
carved-jade-bistre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 October 1953
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Upper Rectory Farmhouse, Berriew
OS grid reference
SJ 190 010
Coordinates
52.60118, -3.19607
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Upper Rectory Farmhouse is a 17th-century timber-framed building with a slate roof that features axial and gable end stacks. The structure is box-framed in regular square panels set on a brick plinth, with painted brick nogging. It stands two storeys high with an attic and has a three-unit plan, divided into four bays by continuous vertical posts. This design creates a two-bay hall flanked by single bays on either end. There are later additions, including a parallel rear range and wing, which are constructed of brick on a stone plinth.

The baffle entrance is located to the right of the center, featuring a timbered and gabled porch that houses a fine six-panelled door. The windows throughout the farmhouse are wooden casements with three lights, complete with mullions and transoms, which appear to have replaced the original horizontally sliding sashes. Gabled dormers in the roof contain two-light casements. To the left of the main range, there are single-storey outbuildings made of brick, topped with a hipped graded slate roof and featuring a three-light leaded window.

Inside, the baffle entrance leads to a small lobby in front of the main chimney stack, located to the right of the heated hall, which has stairs rising from its rear wall. There is also a secondary staircase, possibly of an earlier date, situated at the rear of the stack. Heated rooms are found on either side of the hall, with the drawing room featuring horizontally sliding internal shutters.

Local climate

Upper Rectory Farmhouse receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% 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 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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