Govera Farmhouse, also known as Upper Govera Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 7 August 1997. Farmhouse.
Govera Farmhouse, also known as Upper Govera Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- winding-steel-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Torfaen MP: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1997
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Govera Farmhouse, also known as Upper Govera Farmhouse, Llanvihangel Pontymoel, Pontypool, New Inn, Torfaen
- OS grid reference
- SO 298 025
- Coordinates
- 51.71697, -3.01617
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Govera Farmhouse, also known as Upper Govera Farmhouse, is a two-storey building with a single-depth plan and a single-storey rear outshut. The exterior is rendered and painted, likely over rubble stone, and features Welsh slate roofs. The main front elevation has five windows above three windows and two doors, with the doors located in the second and fourth bays. All windows are 19th-century small-paned casements with elliptical heads. The main door is Victorian, featuring two vertical glazed panels and a deep slated hood supported by brackets. The kitchen door to the right is a plank stable door without a hood. The roof has three stacks along the ridge; the left end stack is a later brick addition, indicating that the end room was originally an unheated dairy. The central stack is an old small parlour stack, while the right-hand end has an original four-flued kitchen stack. The older stacks are rendered.
The rear elevation originally had a continuous outshut with a cat-slide roof, but this has been extended in brick behind the kitchen and raised to two storeys behind the parlour, featuring casement windows. The interior was not available for inspection during the last survey in November 1996, but external evidence suggests a three-room plan with two heated rooms and an unheated dairy.
Local climate
Govera Farmhouse, also known as Upper Govera Farmhouse receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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