The Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 June 1991. House.
The Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-gable-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 27 June 1991
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Farmhouse, Llanspyddid, Glyn Tarell, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 011 281
- Coordinates
- 51.94338, -3.43988
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Farmhouse is a 17th-century house constructed from colourwashed rubble stone, topped with a slate roof and featuring brick chimneys at each end, as well as one on the ridge to the right of the entrance door. The building is one and a half storeys tall. The facade has a slightly projecting section to the left of the central entrance bay, which contains a four-panel door. On either side of the door, there are two cambered-headed square 12-pane windows, with the two on the right spaced further apart. The windows are adorned with stone voussoirs and stone sills. There is a small upper window under the eaves just to the left of the projection. Additionally, there are two gabled 9-pane dormers, each positioned above the inner ground floor windows, with sills that rest on the eaves. All windows feature hopper-type glazing.
The left end of the house has a projecting chimney breast that is flanked by first-floor windows. The right end includes a small upper window above a small single-storey addition that has a rounded corner facing the lane. At the rear, there are three gabled dormers, a door to the left, and two windows, one of which is a nine-pane window with an oak lintel.
Inside, there is a cross-passage with a staircase, stone-flagged floors, deep window recesses, board doors, and boxed-in beams. The left side features a simple 18th-century chimney-piece. The roof retains its original collar trusses.
Local climate
The Farmhouse 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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