Lower Broad Heath Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 March 1985. Farmhouse.

Lower Broad Heath Farmhouse

WRENN ID
heavy-forge-clover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 March 1985
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Lower Broad Heath Farmhouse, Presteigne
OS grid reference
SO 339 632
Coordinates
52.26352, -2.96932
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Lower Broad Heath Farmhouse is a complex building that has several main construction periods ranging from the 17th century to the early 20th century. The entrance block is three storeys high and three windows wide, featuring brickwork from two different periods. It has a hipped tiled roof with wide eaves and tall brick chimney stacks with stepped cornices, including one stack located mid-roof. The building sits on stone wall footings and has modern three-light window frames, with the top storey rising through the eaves and the lower storeys having cambered brick heads. There is an open timberwork porch beneath a tiled hood.

The north side elevation consists of two bays and has a return gablet through the eaves on the right side. This elevation features windows and dummies with freestone keyblocks, and timber studding is visible on the half-hipped rear gable. There is a lower 17th-century block that is two storeys tall with a cross wing to the right, showcasing old brickwork with rectangular hood moulds made of brick. The roofs are steeply pitched and tiled, with a central stack that has a brick stem, curved bargeboards, and wide eaves. The left side has modern three-light casements, while the right side has two-light openings that are blocked to the gable and west side. There have been further extensions added to the south.

Local climate

Lower Broad Heath Farmhouse receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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