Farm building at Sychnant Fach is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 December 2004. Farm building.

Farm building at Sychnant Fach

WRENN ID
fossil-wall-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
14 December 2004
Type
Farm building
Address
Farm building at Sychnant Fach, St. Harmon
OS grid reference
SN 973 774
Coordinates
52.38574, -3.50967
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Sychnant Fach features an L-shaped farm building constructed from rubble stone, topped with a corrugated iron roof. The main section of the building has a central split door set under a stone lintel and raised above ground level, along with a boarded door to the right. To the left, there is a later, lower wing that contains a stable, which has a replaced boarded door on the left side of the front and an opening in the gable. Additionally, the main range includes a boarded shutter covering an opening in the gable.

Local climate

Farm building at Sychnant Fach sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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