Cwm-Bromley Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 March 1953. Farmhouse.
Cwm-Bromley Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- peeling-joist-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1953
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Cwm-Bromley Farmhouse, Newtown, Kerry
- OS grid reference
- SO 226 934
- Coordinates
- 52.53315, -3.14132
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Cwm-Bromley Farmhouse is a timber-framed building that was originally constructed with wattle and daub infill but is now finished with whitewashed brick and render. Some of the framing on the ground floor has been replaced with brick. The farmhouse has a slate roof featuring paired brick axial stacks and stands two storeys tall with attics. It has a lobby entry plan consisting of three bays, a storeyed porch, and a corresponding rear stair tower. There is also a two-bay, two-storey wing on the eastern end, which appears to be contemporary with the main structure. The framing is mainly close studding, with some square panelling above the mid-wall bressumer on the southern side. Each storey of the cross wing is separated by a mid-wall bressumer.
At the rear, there is a 20th-century rendered and colourwashed wing that steps down in height. The original jettied porch has been underbuilt, but above it, there is an inscription under a modern pent roof on original carved scroll brackets that reads: "HIS:HOUSE:WAS:BVILT:A/T:THE:CHARGES:OF:RICHARD:/ WHITTINGHAM:GENTLEMAN:/ ANNO:DOM1633". The current entrance features a boarded stable door located in an attached single-storey lobby that provides access to the wing.
The original central stack has been removed and replaced by two 19th-century brick stacks. Inside, there are parallel chamfered spine beams with ogee stops in the main range. The porch front bressumer, which was originally jettied, is supported by moulded side jetty plates, one of which remains. The principal southern window on the first floor has cut brackets. The stair tower contains the original generous oak stair, which features pierced shaped splat balusters and a moulded handrail. Below the stair, there is a carved arch with a dropped centre and a lozenge carved with leaf motifs, as well as a centre lozenge inscribed with "8EH5", though the last numeral is uncertain. The stair, which seems to have been rebuilt, extends to the attic floor level where one surviving square acorn finial can be found.
Additionally, there is a cellar with a drained flagged floor, and the steps leading down are made with malting kiln tiles.
Local climate
Cwm-Bromley Farmhouse receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% 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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