Upper Cathedine is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 August 1998. Farmhouse.
Upper Cathedine
- WRENN ID
- final-facade-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 21 August 1998
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Upper Cathedine, Llangors, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 144 249
- Coordinates
- 51.91605, -3.2454
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Upper Cathedine is a three-unit farmhouse that features a main entrance located to the center right of the domestic section. This entrance leads into a cross passage hallway that separates the early unit on the left from the later or altered unit on the right, which is connected to a range still used for agricultural purposes. The farmhouse is constructed of limewashed stone and topped with a Welsh slate roof, featuring one brick ridge stack and a large stone stack at the end.
The building is single storey with an attic. The left unit has a steeply pitched roof and includes a single window range with a replaced two-light casement window on the ground floor, set under a timber lintel, and a half dormer in the gable above with a top-hinged casement beneath a dripstone. To the right of this unit, there is a doorway with a hood that has a square hoodmould, leading to an unused door made of wide planks. The large external stack extends into the range at a right angle, indicating a former wash-house. At the rear, there is a blocked window at eaves level and a small rear window under a painted lintel.
The right unit has a flatter roof pitch and features a doorway on the left and two windows on the right, all with replaced glazing, timber lintels, and shallow dripstones. There are two inserted dormers above, and similar openings can be found at the rear, including a dripstone over the rear doorway. The attached farm range shares the same ridge and roof pitch, with a 12-pane window and a door at the front, where the ends of the joists are visible in the wall. At the rear, there is a stone-tiled lean-to and a boarded opening under a timber lintel at the first floor, which is blocked at the ground floor.
The lower attached barn range has a corrugated roof and features ventilation slits in the gable end. Inside, the left unit has two cross beams that are chamfered and stopped, along with a remodelled fireplace. The right unit contains a fireplace with voussoirs.
Local climate
Upper Cathedine 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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