Barn range at Castle Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 January 1963. Barn range.

Barn range at Castle Farm

WRENN ID
solemn-joist-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
17 January 1963
Type
Barn range
Address
Barn range at Castle Farm, Pencelli, Talybont-On-Usk, Powys
OS grid reference
SO 094 248
Coordinates
51.91524, -3.31725
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The barn range at Castle Farm is a long structure that includes a barn and a cartshed on the right, with a lower two-bay unit on the left. It is constructed of stone rubble and topped with a Welsh slate roof. The barn features renewed double doors, a single row of two ventilation slits on the left side, and one on the right. On the right side, there are four segmental arched cartshed bays with voussoirs, narrow imposts, and keystones, along with a loft opening above and a pitching door in the gable end. To the left, there is a boarded door leading to the first-floor loft, while the ground floor has a pair of boarded doors with deep stone lintels and two windows with hoppers. There is also a two-storey lean-to on the left gable end. This range faces the main house, creating an entrance courtyard between the two buildings.

Inside the cartshed, there is a ceiling supported by a cross beam and joists, along with stairs at the rear and square recesses in the end rear wall.

Local climate

Barn range at Castle Farm sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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