Upper Stanton Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 May 1952. Terraced shop and house.

Upper Stanton Farmhouse

WRENN ID
ragged-pinnacle-yew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
6 May 1952
Type
Terraced shop and house
Address
Upper Stanton Farmhouse, Abergavenny, Crucorney, Monmouthshire
OS grid reference
SO 311 213
Coordinates
51.88654, -3.00231
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Upper Stanton Farmhouse is a 17th-century building constructed from roughly squared and coursed red sandstone, topped with Welsh slate roofs. The farmhouse consists of two ranges that meet at right angles, with the main living spaces located in the block facing the road and a service wing positioned behind. The junction of these two blocks is filled by a single-storey lean-to featuring a catslide roof.

The main block is two-and-a-half storeys tall, with the ground floor being a lower 17th-century level. The road-facing elevation includes two windows on the ground floor and two gabled half-dormers above, all adorned with bargeboards and spike finials. The first-floor windows are situated in the gable ends, with two at each end and an attic window above. Most of these windows are 8 over 8 sashes with elliptical heads, except for one 4 over 4 sash in the attic of the right-hand gable. The gables also feature cusped bargeboards and a tall red brick chimney stack.

The rear wing contains two additional windows, with sashes on the lower level and casements above. It has a gable end stack and a small lean-to extension on the right side. The back of this wing is obscured by the catslide roof and includes only a roof-light.

During a resurvey in May 1997, only the ground floor was accessible. It appears that the farmhouse originally started as a two-unit house with a cross-passage, running parallel to the road. The left-hand room of this original structure still retains chamfered ceiling beams. There is evidence suggesting that a stair turret was once present at the back of the house. Although the Victorian farmhouse has undergone improvements and modernisation, much of its character is now reflective of the 20th century. A notable surviving feature is the bacon rack located in the kitchen.

Local climate

Upper Stanton Farmhouse receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% 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.

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