Lower Genffordd Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 August 1995. Gate lodge. 2 related planning applications.
Lower Genffordd Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- pale-thatch-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 August 1995
- Type
- Gate lodge
- Address
- Lower Genffordd Farmhouse, Talgarth, Powys, LD3 0EG
- OS grid reference
- SO 161 319
- Coordinates
- 51.9799, -3.22182
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Lower Genffordd Farmhouse is an early 17th-century farmhouse constructed of painted rubble stone with a slate roof and brick stacks. The building follows a traditional longhouse plan, comprising a living hall with a large axial stack, a passage to the side leading to a former cowhouse, now a kitchen, and a projecting stair behind the stack. The interior is divided into inner rooms. An added lean-to glazed porch provides access to the main entrance, and a similar porch covers a second entrance to the former cowhouse; a further part-glazed door is also present. 19th-century windows are visible, including a six-pane sash window in the living hall and four-pane sashes on the upper floor, two set within wide gables.
Inside, a large fireplace contains an internal oven and a chamfered fire lintel, with the chamfer extending down the stone jambs. The ceiling features close set chamfered cross beams. Two inner rooms, one formerly a dairy, have been opened up into the hall. There is a step down to the kitchen. The first floor above the hall is supported by two pairs of crucks, likely upper crucks, spaced approximately 8 feet apart, both displaying a crossed apex. Two tiers of purlins are present, these being splay scarfed. A section of the diagonally placed ridge shows a window head with mortices for diamond mullions that were once bridled in.
Local climate
Lower Genffordd Farmhouse 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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