Lower Leighton Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 March 1998. Viaduct. 2 related planning applications.
Lower Leighton Farm
- WRENN ID
- turning-joist-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 20 March 1998
- Type
- Viaduct
- Address
- Lower Leighton Farm, Forden, Forden with Leighton and Trelystan, SY21 8HH
- OS grid reference
- SJ 244 065
- Coordinates
- 52.65175, -3.11786
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Lower Leighton Farm is a two-storey, four-unit farmhouse with a rear wing. The building features a timber frame, with large square panels on the lower storey and smaller rectangular panels on the upper storey, both filled with render, and has random rubble gable walls. The roof is slate, with brick stacks located to the right of the center and to the left. The centrally-placed gabled porch is rendered and includes a panelled door with an infilled overlight and round-headed windows on the side walls. To the left, there is a boarded door. The lower storey has large two-light casements with margin glazing, while the upper storey has smaller two-light casements positioned below the wall plate. Behind the left unit, there is a lower two-storey wing that features two-light casements in the upper storey and replaced windows in the lower storey.
Local climate
Lower Leighton Farm receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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