Multi-purpose farm building at Trefaes Uchaf is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 November 2021. Farm building. 1 related planning application.

Multi-purpose farm building at Trefaes Uchaf

WRENN ID
long-baluster-elm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
22 November 2021
Type
Farm building
Address
Multi-purpose farm building at Trefaes Uchaf, Bethania, Dyffryn Arth, SY23 5NJ
OS grid reference
SN 562 640
Coordinates
52.25557, -4.10804
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a multi-purpose farm building located at Trefaes Uchaf, built on a sloping site. It features a cart house with a granary above at the uphill (north) end, and a barn with a probable stable at the downhill end. The structure is made of rubble stone and has a slate roof, which was partly missing during the inspection in September 2020. The openings have stone heads.

At the uphill end facing the yard, there is a wide elliptical doorway leading to the cart house, with a small-pane window beneath the eaves. To the right of this doorway is a stone stack, and to the left is a corrugated-iron lean-to that was partially collapsed at the time of inspection. The barn includes a segmental-headed winnowing doorway to the yard, and to the left of this doorway is another doorway flanked by windows, with the left-hand window being an insertion without a lintel, situated below a loft window, all featuring inserted glazing. At the rear (west), the wagon bay has a wide segmental-headed doorway, and further to the right is an opening with inserted glass, although its original cambered stone head is largely missing. Access to the granary is from the uphill (north) gable end, where stone steps with renewed concrete treads lead to a boarded door under a cambered head.

The barn and stable are covered by an 8-bay roof supported by pegged collar-beam trusses. Line shafting is preserved against the east wall, which was powered by a portable engine located in the yard.

Local climate

Multi-purpose farm building at Trefaes Uchaf sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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