Blaenau-fforest is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 September 2002. House.

Blaenau-fforest

WRENN ID
quartered-banister-wren
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Constituency
Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
6 September 2002
Type
House
Address
Blaenau-fforest, Ffaldybrenin, Llanycrwys
OS grid reference
SN 617 450
Coordinates
52.08647, -4.01962
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Blaenau-fforest is a 2-storey house with three windows, built from whitened rubble stone and topped with a slate roof featuring roughcast end stacks. The openings are offset to the right side and have brick segmental heads. The central doorway features a half-lit panelled door. The windows are 4-pane horned sashes, which are smaller on the upper storey, and each window has slate sills. There is an added lean-to against the left gable end.

Local climate

Blaenau-fforest 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 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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