Fforest Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 May 1962. House, villa.
Fforest Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- proud-bailey-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1962
- Type
- House, villa
- Address
- Fforest Farmhouse, Hundred House, Glascwm
- OS grid reference
- SO 107 540
- Coordinates
- 52.17716, -3.30636
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Fforest Farmhouse is a 2½-storey house built from whitened rubble stone, topped with a slate roof and featuring a roughcast stack on the right. The openings on the lower storey have wooden lintels, while the upper storey and attic have brick segmental heads. The central 19th-century porch has a segmental arch made of freestone voussoirs and a glazed front door. The lower and middle storeys contain 16-pane horned sash windows, and there are two gabled dormers with 12-pane horned sashes. On the right gable end, there is a small window on the left side of each storey. To the right, French doors have been inserted, along with a window above and a small attic window. The rear of the house features a short gabled wing with a raked buttress and an added outshut on its right side, as well as a flat-roof projection on the left. All rear windows have been replaced. The left gable end has a segmental-headed small-pane window in the upper right, above a lower attached range that houses workshops.
Inside, a former entrance hall leads to a closed-string stair at the rear. The room on the right has spine beams. The house is also reported to retain two fireplaces with moulded stone jambs, which may have been reclaimed from the nearby castle ruins.
Local climate
Fforest Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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