Barn at Upper Cwm Cadarn is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 December 1995. Barn.
Barn at Upper Cwm Cadarn
- WRENN ID
- waning-gateway-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1995
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at Upper Cwm Cadarn, Felindre, Gwernyfed, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 193 350
- Coordinates
- 52.00762, -3.17644
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The barn at Upper Cwm Cadarn is a Grade II listed building constructed from rubble stone, with some external plastering at the upper end and a slate roof featuring crested red tiles. It consists of five bays, with a central threshing floor. The uphill end was likely a granary, as it was formerly floored and had plastered walls. There are blocked doors on each side of the second bay from the upper end. The west side has pitching doors that have also been blocked due to alterations when the floor was removed to extend the barn. A high-level door is located at the south end gable, which was probably the main access point. The lower end of the barn features two tiers of slit vents, while the gable end has four tiers and a central pitching door. Additionally, the cartway on the northeast side has been extended later to create a short porch with a raking roof.
Inside, the upper end has a full truss with a half-chamfered tie at floor level, and the upper part is framed for a door between the upper and second bays. Other trusses include a tie beam and collar that support raking struts leading to the principal rafters, along with two tiers of trenched purlins.
Local climate
Barn at Upper Cwm Cadarn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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