Home Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 September 2004. House.

Home Farmhouse

WRENN ID
muffled-window-torch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
3 September 2004
Type
House
Address
Home Farmhouse, Abbey Cwmhir
OS grid reference
SO 054 711
Coordinates
52.33017, -3.38821
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Home Farmhouse is a 2-storey house with an attic and basement, constructed from rubble stone and topped with a slate roof. It features early to mid-19th century fretted barge boards and a yellow-brick ridge stack on the northern cross wing. The main range, which has three bays and faces west, includes 19th century openings framed in freestone. The entrance is located in the left-hand bay, which has a replacement ribbed door and a small-pane overlight above it. Above the entrance is a 16-pane hornless sash window. The narrow central bay is slightly projected and features a 30-pane sash window on the lower storey, with an inserted casement window above. The right-hand bay is blank and shows a full-height vertical joint, indicating where the house was extended in the 19th century.

The northern cross wing has a higher eaves line and larger quoins. Its west gable end has inserted 2-light and 3-light casement windows, and beneath the sill of the lower window is a re-set fragment of a nook shaft from the abbey. The northern side wall features an inserted 3-light window on the lower storey and a single-storey 19th century roughcast wing on the left side, which has a segmental-headed 2-light iron-framed window with Gothic small-pane glazing, along with an inserted window to its right. The rear side also includes a 2-light window, although only one of the iron-framed casements remains. To its left is a replacement door. The rear gable end of the northern cross wing has a tablet inscribed 'WL 1806' and replaced windows. The rear of the main range also has replacement windows. At the southern end, there is a short rear wing with a lean-to facing the back of the house. On the southern side, which faces the river, the rear wing creates a continuous two-window elevation with the southern gable end of the main range. Replacement casement windows are set under flat stone arches. In the gable of the main range, there are three re-set stepped shaft capitals taken from the abbey. The basement features a boarded door.

Local climate

Home Farmhouse 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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