Barn and Former Bakehouse at Henbant Fawr is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 November 1998. Barn, bakehouse.
Barn and Former Bakehouse at Henbant Fawr
- WRENN ID
- quiet-flue-torch
- 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 November 1998
- Type
- Barn, bakehouse
- Address
- Barn and Former Bakehouse at Henbant Fawr, the Vale of Grwyney, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 245 207
- Coordinates
- 51.88048, -3.09793
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Barn and Former Bakehouse at Henbant Fawr is situated on a steeply sloping site, featuring a two-storey bakehouse at the uphill end and a barn that steps down at the downhill end. The structures are built of random rubble sandstone, with the bakehouse painted white and both having corrugated metal roofs.
The bakehouse faces the yard and includes a boarded door on the left and an infilled former cart shed door on the right, which has a small fixed light inserted. There is an added window in the upper left. The barn features a central wagon bay doorway with boarded doors, sheltered by a renewed canopy on original brackets, and is flanked by ventilation slits. To the right at the lower end, there is a boarded door with a casement window beside it, leading to a former stable located in a basement beneath the barn floor. The uphill gable end of the bakehouse has a doorway with a timber frame and a boarded door, with a tall stack rising from the angle. The rear of the former bakehouse has double boarded doors under a timber lintel, with a casement window above in an earlier opening. The rear of the barn has a central cart passage doorway with renewed doors and sawn-off brackets from a former canopy, along with a ventilation slit to the left. The barn's gable end features three stepped breathers and a basement window offset to the right, which is located under a dripstone and has a renewed casement.
Inside, the barn has a five-bay tie-beam roof. The bakehouse contains a fireplace with a timber lintel and a bread oven. The granary floor is supported by a single cross beam with closely spaced joists.
Local climate
Barn and Former Bakehouse at Henbant Fawr sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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