Cowhouses lying 25m NE of Vron Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 April 1993. Agricultural building. 1 related planning application.
Cowhouses lying 25m NE of Vron Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- stranded-fireplace-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1993
- Type
- Agricultural building
- Address
- Cowhouses lying 25m NE of Vron Farmhouse, New Radnor, LD8 2TN
- OS grid reference
- SO 193 598
- Coordinates
- 52.23081, -3.18222
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
These are 19th-century cowhouses located 25 metres northeast of Vron Farmhouse. They are two storeys high and constructed of coursed rubble stone with a half-hipped slate roof covered in iron. A large gabled dormer window has a pitching opening to the centre of the east front. The windows have cambered voussoir heads, and the building features boarded doors and shutters. There are external rubble stone steps at the north end. The interior has good quality beams and floorboards. The roof structure consists of interrupted tie-beam trusses with long raking braces from the collar to the floor beam. The loft contains plank-lined corn bins.
Local climate
Cowhouses lying 25m NE of Vron Farmhouse receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% 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 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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