Cefn Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 December 1995. Farmhouse.

Cefn Farmhouse

WRENN ID
high-garret-summer
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
15 December 1995
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Cefn Farmhouse, Tregoyd, Gwernyfed, Powys
OS grid reference
SO 205 364
Coordinates
52.02101, -3.15872
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Cefn Farmhouse is a 17th-century building constructed of colourwashed stone with a stone slate roof. It has a 'T'-shaped plan that includes a living hall and an inner room, with a two-bay service wing added centrally on the northwest side, which continues as a barn that may have originally been part of the farmhouse. The entrance features a boarded door in a heavy frame located at the side of the large gable stack of the living hall. There is a 20th-century service extension on the northeast gable.

Inside, the living hall showcases ogee stopped cross beams, with similar chamfer stops on the fire lintel. A 17th-century door frame from the hall leads into the lower service extension, which may have originally served as an external door. A shaped doorhead next to the stack provides access to a circular stone stair, which has a small gable-end window. The inner room, now used as a kitchen, also features similar cross beams, and the end room above has a gable window with splayed jambs. The low-pitched roof is supported by large scantling principal rafters, measuring approximately 300 by 150 millimeters, with a high tenoned collar.

Local climate

Cefn Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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