Cowhouse at E end of farmyard at Great Abbey Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 July 2004. Cowhouse.

Cowhouse at E end of farmyard at Great Abbey Farm

WRENN ID
drifting-groin-amber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
20 July 2004
Type
Cowhouse
Address
Cowhouse at E end of farmyard at Great Abbey Farm, Strata Florida/Ystrad Fflur, Ystrad Meurig, Ystrad Fflur
OS grid reference
SN 746 656
Coordinates
52.27473, -3.83873
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The cowhouse at the eastern end of the farmyard at Great Abbey Farm is a 19th-century structure built from rubble stone and topped with a slate roof. The west front features five doors with stone voussoirs. On the left end, there is a 20th-century brick lean-to and a loft window above. The rear of the building has a door on the right and an outshut with a roof that extends down. There is a boarded door on the north return. The east side includes a loop opening to the right and three pig-sties on the left, which have square-headed openings and walled yards in front. The building has not been inspected.

Local climate

Cowhouse at E end of farmyard at Great Abbey Farm sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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