Pen-y-bryn Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 October 2002. Farmhouse.
Pen-y-bryn Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- idle-paling-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 October 2002
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Pen-y-bryn Farmhouse, Dolanog, Welshpool, Llanfihangel
- OS grid reference
- SJ 067 129
- Coordinates
- 52.7058, -3.38194
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Pen-y-bryn Farmhouse is a two-storey, two-unit symmetrical farmhouse built from axe-dressed uncoursed stonework, which is painted white. It features a hipped slate roof with tiled ridges and hips, along with a brick mid chimney. The entrance has a modern central semi-glazed door and porch. The windows are small-pane, with the upper windows consisting of two lights and iron opening casements. To the left, there is a mullion window below, while to the right, there is a mullion and transom window, also with iron opening casements.
At the rear, there are extensions that are partly stone and partly brickwork, topped with a slate lean-to roof. Some sections are made of concrete blockwork with a flat roof, featuring modern doors and windows.
The interior has a symmetrical two-unit lobby-entrance plan with large back-to-back fireplaces. Notably, on the bressummer of the fireplace in the right room, there is a scratched circular feature with six petals, which is generally regarded as an evil-eye talisman, a feature not uncommon in locally found sub-mediaeval houses.
Local climate
Pen-y-bryn Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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