Cwmdu Mawr Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 1981. Farmhouse.

Cwmdu Mawr Farmhouse

WRENN ID
tall-baluster-honey
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Constituency
Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 May 1981
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Cwmdu Mawr Farmhouse, Elim Road, Carmarthen
OS grid reference
SN 410 222
Coordinates
51.87574, -4.3107
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Cwmdu Mawr Farmhouse is an L-plan farmhouse that dates back to the 17th century. It stands two storeys high with a cellar and features a roughcast front with three widely spaced bays beneath a slate roof. Originally, it had end stacks, but the right end stack has been removed. The farmhouse has four-pane sash windows, and there are steps leading up to a doorway that has a 20th-century door. The ground floor right window is set further in than the one above it, and there is a cellar opening to the left. The right end wall is made of rubble stone and is above an attached service range, which is a lower two-storey structure with a four-pane sash window on each floor, positioned left of centre, and a right end stack. The left end wall is also made of rubble stone and features an attic window.

At the rear, there is a full-height wing with whitewashed rubble walls, a battered base, and a brick end stack. The front wall has two doors, and there is a lean-to at the rear.

The interior was not available for inspection during the resurvey, but in 1981 it was noted to have a probably late 17th-century staircase with a closed and pulvinated string, newels with finials and pendants, and balusters that were covered over. The first floor had 17th-century doors in a Jacobean style, featuring round-arched panels with strapwork motifs. The ground floor had cased ceiling beams. The cellar and roof trusses were not inspected, and the farmhouse was in deteriorating condition at the time of the resurvey.

Local climate

Cwmdu Mawr Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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