Barn at Y Fro is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 November 1998. Barn.

Barn at Y Fro

WRENN ID
plain-garret-jay
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 November 1998
Type
Barn
Address
Barn at Y Fro, the Vale of Grwyney, Powys
OS grid reference
SO 231 196
Coordinates
51.86981, -3.11786
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The barn at Y Fro is a rubble stone structure built on a sloping site, featuring battered walls and a roof covered with concrete pantiles. The front of the barn includes a central wagon bay doorway with double boarded doors, a timber lintel, and wooden brackets that once supported a canopy. Flanking the doorway are three stepped ventilation slits. The right gable end has two tiers of three ventilation slits and a loft opening, which is now glazed, situated beneath a drip stone. The left gable end features a single tier of three ventilation slits, a boarded loft opening, and a triangular breather located below the apex. At the rear, there is a central lean-to with a single-storey projection to the right. The barn was not inspected at the time of the survey in December 1997.

Local climate

Barn at Y Fro sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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