Lower Cantref is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 July 2005. Farmhouse.
Lower Cantref
- WRENN ID
- western-pediment-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 July 2005
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lower Cantref, Llanfrynach, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 064 260
- Coordinates
- 51.92505, -3.3625
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Lower Cantref is a farmhouse constructed from squared rubble stone, featuring a deep-eaved slate roof and stone end chimneys that have dripstones and cornices. The building stands tall at three storeys and consists of three bays, with raised angle strips made of tooled stone, as well as tooled stone window lintels and sides. The windows have stone sills, with nine-pane upper windows and 12-pane windows elsewhere. There is a central door located in an added rubble-stone gabled porch, and the farmhouse has a raised plinth.
The rear wall includes a very long arched stair light in the center, positioned above a door that has a stone lintel. The outer bays feature windows similar to those at the front, but with rougher stone lintels, and small relieving arches above the first floor and door lintels.
An attached lower range of rubble stone has two pairs of casement windows with timber lintels at the front. The rear side features three long horizontal windows under the eaves and a broad doorway with a cemented lintel and 20th-century glazed doors.
The interior has been altered to include a new staircase.
Local climate
Lower Cantref sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 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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