Dan y Banc farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 October 1998. Farmhouse.
Dan y Banc farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- south-roof-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Llanelli MP: Dame Nia Griffith (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 October 1998
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Dan y Banc farmhouse, Pontyates, Llanelli Rural
- OS grid reference
- SN 477 074
- Coordinates
- 51.74544, -4.20629
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Dan y Banc farmhouse is a Grade II listed building consisting of two houses, with the older house on the right and the later house on the left. The older house is constructed of rubble masonry using local stone, particularly irregular at the rear. It features a slate roof with tile ridges and has a two-unit plan with a large chimney on the right, which is said to retain a bread oven that is not accessible. There are two windows above and one window below on the left that are in their original openings, while the lower right window has been widened. The left lower window retains its cambered arch head, similar to the door, which has a projecting keystone and the date 1647 carved into the adjacent voussoirs. A modern storm porch has been added. The rear elevation has two windows above and two below, which are not aligned. The right-hand upper window was likely an upper doorway that was accessed by outside stairs, now missing. The other three windows and the central doorway are in original openings, with the lower windows featuring cambered stone arch heads. In front of the older house, there is a small raised paved area with three central steps and iron railings.
The later house on the left is three storeys high and has a three-window range with a central door. It is made of rendered masonry with a slate roof and tile ridge, and the rendered end-chimneys have been reduced to ridge level. This house stands about 3 meters forward of the older house, with walls approximately 600 mm thick. The decorative window surrounds were added in the 19th century, featuring quoins and a sill-string course formed in the render, which is now painted black and white. The original sashes, likely reglazed in the 19th century, have hornless designs with thin glazing bars and stone sills. The top windows have six panes, while the others have twelve. The door is a late 18th-century six-panel bolection moulded design with a cast-iron semicircular fanlight, and there is probably a simple open porch from the 19th century with pilasters and two timber posts.
Inside the later house, the layout consists of two rooms with a central entrance and rear dogleg stairs. Beneath the left room is a cellar that contains a well set into the rear wall, which is said to be a rare feature locally.
Local climate
Dan y Banc farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,430 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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