Ystradgynwyn is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 December 1998. Farmhouse.

Ystradgynwyn

WRENN ID
weathered-stronghold-sienna
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 December 1998
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Ystradgynwyn, Taf Fechan, Talybont-On-Usk, Powys, CF48 2UT
OS grid reference
SO 048 158
Coordinates
51.83345, -3.38206
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Ystradgynwyn is a farmhouse with early 19th century features on its front and an attached barn range. The building is constructed of stone, with parts rendered and painted, and has a Welsh slate roof with bracketed eaves. There is an end stack on the left, a ridge stack on the centre right, and a large external stack incorporated into the barn end on the right. These stacks are made of dressed stone and have shallow cornices. The farmhouse has two storeys and a three-window range featuring 8/8 pane horned sashes with shallow sills. The ground floor windows are adorned with painted hoodmoulds, and there is a gabled porch at the doorway on the centre right. The barn has a steeply pitched artificial slate roof made of stone rubble and features a hood over a double doorway, along with small rectangular openings, some of which have been altered, but it lacks ventilation slits.

Inside, the layout retains a lobby entry plan, with a room to the right that has a large open fireplace in the gable wall, which incorporates bread ovens. There is a doorway at the rear leading to an outshut, and a high cross beam that is lightly chamfered and stopped. The room on the left has a central fireplace with a replaced grate from a former railway station, and stairs ascend on the far side, which have been renewed, as has the cross beam. There is a further room to the left that also contains a fireplace. The barn range attached to the right features ties to trusses that are similarly chamfered and stopped.

Local climate

Ystradgynwyn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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