Old house at Llechdwnni is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 11 July 1994. House.
Old house at Llechdwnni
- WRENN ID
- ruined-minaret-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Llanelli MP: Dame Nia Griffith (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1994
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old house at Llechdwnni, Mynyddygarreg, Llandyfaelog
- OS grid reference
- SN 428 100
- Coordinates
- 51.76714, -4.2785
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old House at Llechdwnni is a 2-storey building constructed of rubble stone, featuring a slate roof and a large square stone chimney on the right side, with an external stack offset in the left gable end. The front has two windows and an offset doorway topped with a shouldered head. The lower storey has metal-framed windows, while the upper storey contains two small wood-framed windows, one of which is obscured by vegetation. On the uphill gable end, there is a first-floor doorway with a missing threshold; its Tudor head is set beneath a broader relieving arch, indicating that the masonry may have been reused from an earlier, wider opening. In the downhill gable end, where a former eastern wing once stood, there is a doorway in the upper right, featuring a wooden lintel with brick dressings. The rear of the house has an outshut with a partially collapsed catslide roof.
Inside, a cross passage retains its original cobbled floor and leads directly to the hall on the right side, which features a central stop-chamfered beam and a fireplace lintel. It appears that the downhill gable end is an addition, suggesting that the house was originally an open-hearth hall house. The upper storey boasts a 5-bay roof supported by collar-beam trusses with scarfed feet and two rows of purlins.
Local climate
Old house at Llechdwnni sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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