Heoldraw including attached farm buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 July 1963. House.

Heoldraw including attached farm buildings

WRENN ID
young-arch-indigo
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 July 1963
Type
House
Address
Heoldraw including attached farm buildings, Myarth, Llanfihangel Cwmdu with Bwlch and Cathedine, Powys
OS grid reference
SO 185 207
Coordinates
51.87978, -3.18526
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Heoldraw is a two-storey house that includes attached farm buildings, constructed from rubble sandstone and topped with a slate roof. The house features a stone stack at the front gable and a 19th-century brick stack at the rear. The front gable has a storeyed porch with a segmental archway that has a continuous chamfer. Above the archway is a blocked window with a hood mould, which has a smaller opening inserted into it. The lower storey displays roll mouldings at the corners, and the side walls have small segmental-headed openings set in dressed surrounds.

On the right side wall, there is a corbelled out upper storey with a renewed bressumer and corbel at the angle, along with a doorway to the right. The left side wall of the house has two windows, offset to the left, featuring 9-pane hornless sashes and a larger 12-pane sash at the lower right, all beneath prominent sandstone lintels with stone sills. To the right, there is a shadow of a former lean-to scullery, where the door has been blocked and replaced in the late 20th century by a window. The right side wall, facing the yard, has two windows with late 19th-century two-light casements under segmental heads on the upper storey, and a horned sash window below. To the right, there is a segmental-headed window in the lower storey and an enlarged opening in the upper storey, both of which have been recently replaced.

Attached to the rear of the house is a parallel lower barn made of rubble stone, featuring a steeply-pitched roof covered in corrugated asbestos cement. The side walls of the barn include cart passage doorways with timber lintels, one leading to the yard and the other boarded up at the rear. At right angles to the barn is a lower former cow house, also built of rubble stone and topped with a stone tile roof. This cow house has four doorways facing the yard, two on the left with timber lintels and boarded stable doors, one blocked with a small window inserted, and another under a segmental head on the right. The gable end of the cow house includes a loft doorway under a timber lintel.

The house has a two-unit plan with an end-entry layout. The gable end features a large fireplace with a renewed bressumer and a stone semi-circular stair to the left, which may be all that remains of the original 16th-century house.

Local climate

Heoldraw including attached farm buildings sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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