Cow house at Brigwallt y Coed is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 January 2004. Cow house.

Cow house at Brigwallt y Coed

WRENN ID
quartered-thatch-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Constituency
Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
16 January 2004
Type
Cow house
Address
Cow house at Brigwallt y Coed, Nantycaws, Llangunnor
OS grid reference
SN 462 179
Coordinates
51.83919, -4.23257
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The cow house at Brigwallt y Coed is constructed of limewashed rubble stone and features a slate roof. The openings include boarded doors. On the right side, which is the downhill end, there is a ventilation strip, a doorway beneath a lintel, and an added blockwork lean-to. To the left, there are four doorways, each with different lintel types: one has a concrete lintel, another has a segmental brick head, the third has a wooden lintel, and the last also has a segmental brick head. Additionally, there is a metal-framed loft window in the right gable end, and there are some additions at the rear of the building.

Local climate

Cow house at Brigwallt y Coed 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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