Abersefin is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 May 2005. Farmhouse.
Abersefin
- WRENN ID
- frozen-soffit-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 27 May 2005
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Abersefin, Penpont, Trallong, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SN 969 292
- Coordinates
- 51.95184, -3.50035
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Abersefin is a farmhouse that has been rendered and features a hipped slate roof with close eaves and a prominent brick ridge stack located towards the right roof hip. The building is two storeys tall with an attic and has a long facade divided into a 1-3-1 bay arrangement. The central bay showcases a steep, broad gable that is flanked by small rendered square chimneys. Within the gable, there is a small traceried lunette topped with a crescent-shaped pane, creating a trilobe shape.
The windows are casements with stone sills, featuring three small pairs on the first floor above two longer pairs, and a central door located in a rendered porch that has a timber pediment. The porch contains two seats and is paved with stone flags. The large side bays are fitted with triple casements, with smaller windows above and broader, longer windows with top-lights below.
On the left end of the farmhouse, there is an attached colourwashed lofted outbuilding that has a brick ridge stack and a half-hipped gable. The first floor of this outbuilding includes a cross-window to the right above a 20th-century long window and door. The center left features a loft opening above a former stable, which has a cambered-headed door flanked by windows, all with brick heads. There is also a door and window to the left, with stone sills, board doors, and windows that have internal shutters. The southwest corner of the building is curved.
To the right of the house, there is an altered single-storey colourwashed and slated outbuilding range, which has long horizontal openings under the eaves and is partly obscured by a large 20th-century shed. The property has not been inspected.
Local climate
Abersefin sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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