Capel Ifan is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 December 2003. House.

Capel Ifan

WRENN ID
open-ledge-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Constituency
Llanelli MP: Dame Nia Griffith (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
12 December 2003
Type
House
Address
Capel Ifan, Cwm Isfael, Llangyndeyrn
OS grid reference
SN 489 154
Coordinates
51.81699, -4.19211
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Capel Ifan is a tall two-storey house constructed from rubble stone, featuring a steep slate roof and white-brick end stacks. The front façade has four window openings that are offset to the right side. The two right-hand windows and the main entrance are a late 19th-century addition, marked by a vertical joint that separates them from the original structure. The entrance is located in an open gabled porch supported by wooden posts, and it includes a panelled door with an overlight. The windows on the right side have segmental-headed brick surrounds for the late 19th-century openings, while the left side retains earlier lintels. The two central windows are narrower than the others, and there is a smaller window on the left side of the upper storey.

Attached to the left gable end is a lower two-storey, two-window wing that aligns with the main house and has a stone end stack on the left. In the lower storey, the window and doorway to the right feature segmental stone heads, with the doorway having a half-glazed panelled door. The windows in this wing are small-pane hornless sashes. Additionally, there is a low wing on the left side that extends at right angles and has a pent corrugated iron roof. At the rear, this wing includes a central opening beneath the eaves that is boarded up, along with a blockwork lean-to on the left side that abuts the main range. The rear of the main range has an outshut behind the original part, which features replaced windows. The late 19th-century extension at the rear is roughcast and also has replaced rear windows.

Local climate

Capel Ifan sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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