Ongur Uchaf (aka Rhongyr Uchaf) including attached barn range and garden walls with gates is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 April 2005. Farmhouse.
Ongur Uchaf (aka Rhongyr Uchaf) including attached barn range and garden walls with gates
- WRENN ID
- watchful-pewter-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 April 2005
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Ongur Uchaf (aka Rhongyr Uchaf) including attached barn range and garden walls with gates, Craig-Y-Nos, Swansea, Tawe-Uchaf, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SN 846 152
- Coordinates
- 51.82356, -3.67558
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Ongur Uchaf, also known as Rhongyr Uchaf, is a tall farmhouse with a Georgian-style front, built of stone that is rendered and painted at the front, while the sides remain unpainted. The building has three storeys and features a nearly symmetrical facade, although the uphill third, which incorporates an earlier house, is blank. The main section has a three-window range of small pane windows, which were formerly sash windows but have since been replaced. The roof is covered with Welsh slate and has rendered end stacks.
To the left of the center is a moulded wooden porch supported by posts, with stone flags and steps leading to a panelled boarded door. Attached to the right is a former farm range constructed of rubble, featuring yellow brick segmental arches over the ground floor openings; this area has been converted for use as storage and office space. At the rear, the roof slopes down at a slightly flatter pitch over an extension that includes a ground floor and basement, with two very tall stacks made of dressed stone rising from the roof. The rear elevation is made of unrendered rubble, with dressed stone surrounds framing the openings. On either side of the central door, which has an overlight, are large 16-pane sash windows, and the basement windows feature cambered heads. The house is set against fields at the back, while the front has a divided walled garden that includes ornamental gatepiers topped with urn finials and iron gates.
Inside, the farmhouse is said to have a central hall with an oak staircase that rises gently before making a sharp turn to the left at the landing. The former kitchen, located to the right, features a large open fireplace with a bread oven, a ceiling with a cross beam, and exposed joists from the room above, which has wide oak floorboards. The interior also retains panelled window shutters.
Local climate
Ongur Uchaf (aka Rhongyr Uchaf) including attached barn range and garden walls with gates sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,460 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings