Cow House and Stable Range at Home farm is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 March 2005. Agricultural buildings.

Cow House and Stable Range at Home farm

WRENN ID
muffled-oriel-vale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 March 2005
Type
Agricultural buildings
Address
Cow House and Stable Range at Home farm, Llandefalle, Brecon, Felin-Fach
OS grid reference
SO 117 360
Coordinates
52.0156, -3.2869
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Cow House and Stable Range at Home Farm is a long, two-storey structure that runs parallel to the barn range. It features limewashed dressed and roughly coursed stonework, with the original roof replaced by profile sheeting. The northern section includes a five-door cowhouse, which has three closely spaced doorways in the center and additional doorways at either end, likely for feed-passages, accompanied by slit vents. There are loft openings above the second and fourth doors.

The southern part of the range consists of a five-horse stable, which includes a harness room and a loose box. The stable is symmetrically arranged with a central door flanked by windows, and there is a window above the door. The harness room, located between the stable and the loose box, has a doorway with a window next to it and a loft opening above. The loose box features a single doorway with a window above. The entire structure presents a balanced composition, with an external staircase leading to a loft door in the south gable end.

At the rear of the stable, there is a wide lean-to that accommodates an additional cart shed and stable, along with a smithy in a gabled wing. The smithy has a high and wide doorway in the gable end, as well as wide two-light windows with small panes on each long wall, and a forge fireplace in the corner.

While the fittings in the cowhouse have been lost, the cobbled floors remain. The stables still retain stalls equipped with lateral feed racks and mangers.

Local climate

Cow House and Stable Range at Home farm sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 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 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 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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