Cow house at Hirfron Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 February 2005. Cow house.
Cow house at Hirfron Farm
- WRENN ID
- brooding-groin-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 February 2005
- Type
- Cow house
- Address
- Cow house at Hirfron Farm, Carmel, Nantmel
- OS grid reference
- SO 051 663
- Coordinates
- 52.28668, -3.39165
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The cow house at Hirfron Farm is a lofted structure built from rubble stone and topped with a corrugated iron roof. It features six doorways, with the right-hand one blocked. Each doorway has a segmental stone head with voussoirs and drip moulds. At the left end, two split boarded doors remain intact. The loft includes four ventilation strips, two shuttered openings, and a diamond panel with a date inscription located to the left of center. Additional ranges have been added against the left gable end and the rear of the building. The right gable end has a segmental-headed loft opening and an inserted doorway below it.
Local climate
Cow house at Hirfron Farm sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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