Fronlas is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 October 2002. Farmhouse.

Fronlas

WRENN ID
shadowed-tallow-plover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
25 October 2002
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Fronlas, Tynrwtra, Welshpool, Llanfihangel
OS grid reference
SJ 047 171
Coordinates
52.74397, -3.41213
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Fronlas is a 1½-storey farmhouse located on the north side of a farmyard, featuring a two-window layout and a lofted outbuilding range to its left, all under the same roof. The building is positioned against steeply rising ground at the rear, raising the ground floor about a metre above the farmyard level. Access to the house is via a flight of steps leading up to a slate landing at the front door, while the outbuilding has corbelled stone steps leading to its door on the left.

The house follows a lobby-entry design, with a stone stack and door located to the left. It is constructed from uncoursed large quasi rubble masonry, topped with a roof made of small slates and a tile ridge. The main door is a 20th-century semi-glazed type, accompanied by two 20th-century casement windows, which appear to have altered openings. Above these windows are paired metal lights with six or twelve panes set in dormers. There is also a paired casement window in the right gable. The agricultural range adjacent to the left of the house features a tall heck door on the right and another heck door at yard level on the left, along with a small window. The left bay of this range has double doors, and its loft is timber boarded.

The agricultural outbuilding is constructed from smaller quasi rubble, with its left (west) gable restored in brickwork and its rear wall made of rubble stonework. Lean-to annexes in brickwork or metal sheeting, covered with slates or asbestos sheeting, are located at the rear (north) and right (east) of the house.

The interior of the house has not been seen. The range to the left includes a central barn floor with low divisions on each side, as well as a workshop in the west bay.

Local climate

Fronlas sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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