Fen Hill, The Butts is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 September 1986. House.
Fen Hill, The Butts
- WRENN ID
- inner-casement-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 September 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fen Hill, The Butts, Laugharne Township
- OS grid reference
- SN 299 108
- Coordinates
- 51.77029, -4.46598
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Fen Hill is a Regency-style, two-storey house featuring a stucco front and a plinth. It has a double-pile structure arranged in a U-plan, similar to Parson’s Lodge and Mapsland. The building is topped with hipped slate roofs, which include a gabled extension on the left and brick chimney stacks. The main front has three windows, with the left bay set back. It features recessed 12-pane sash windows and French windows on the ground floor, complemented by diamond-glazed fanlights. The timber detailing is also present on the trellised verandah.
To the left, there is a two-window entrance front dated 1865 on the gable, which has similar windows and a modern porch with a pitched roof leading to an arched doorway. The original rear range is set back to the left and maintains similar detailing. There is a blind rubble end wall of the cross range set back to the right, which has a lean-to at the northeast end.
Notably, the house retains an unusual water system that collects rainwater in the basement to be pumped up for use.
Local climate
Fen Hill, The Butts sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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