Rhosson Uchaf/Rhosson Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 December 1951. House.

Rhosson Uchaf/Rhosson Farmhouse

WRENN ID
heavy-eave-heron
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
Constituency
Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
13 December 1951
Type
House
Address
Rhosson Uchaf/Rhosson Farmhouse, St. David's and the Cathedral Close
OS grid reference
SM 729 252
Coordinates
51.87962, -5.30057
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Rhosson Uchaf, also known as Rhosson Farmhouse, is a farmhouse that was raised a storey in the late 18th century or early 19th century. It is constructed from whitewashed rubble stone and features a grouted slate roof, with a coped gable at the north end and a small stone stack to the north and a larger stone stack to the south. The building has two storeys.

The east front is dominated by a massive external chimney breast that is square at the base and tapers at the first-floor sill level to a very large conical stack that begins above the eaves. The tapered sides of the chimney are slate-hung, and there is a projecting course of slates on the stack just below the top. On either side of the chimney are lean-to outshuts, which were noted by J Romilly Allen as a characteristic of the Dewisland round-chimney houses in 1902.

The outshut on the right has a thick slate roof and serves as a porch with a plain doorway, three steps inside, a round-arched house door against the chimney, and a seat to the right. The left outshut also has a thick slate roof and features a 20th-century window. The house front is four windows wide, divided by the external stack, with 12-pane sash windows to the right and early 20th-century 4-pane sash windows to the left. The ground floor has outshuts on each side of the stack and one sash window beyond each side. The left side has a rounded projecting eaves course between the window heads and to the left of the left window.

The north end wall includes one first-floor window and a ground floor lean-to. The rear has lean-to outshuts that are not continuously roofed, with stone cross-walls in the centre and near the left end, and they are topped with corrugated asbestos roofs.

Attached to the south end, under the same roofline, is a two-storey outbuilding with a corrugated asbestos roof, a small eaves window, and a ground floor door adjacent to the house's end wall. The south end wall features outside stairs leading to a loft door, and there is a rear lean-to. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Rhosson Uchaf/Rhosson Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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