Sychnant Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 August 1995. Church hall.
Sychnant Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- fallen-pavement-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 August 1995
- Type
- Church hall
- Address
- Sychnant Farmhouse, Talgarth, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 173 332
- Coordinates
- 51.99164, -3.20449
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Sychnant Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse that has an attached farm building, which has been converted into Sychnant Cottage. The farmhouse features a pebbledashed exterior and a slate roof, with a 'T'-shaped plan that includes a three-bay main range with the main stack at the lower end, and a rear range, likely built at the same time, also with three bays that now serves as the kitchen. There is a central boarded door leading to a cross passage, with a parlour located at the uphill end, heated by a gable stack that has two diagonally set stone flues. A window with a stone drip is positioned beside the stack. The farmhouse has three-light windows with chamfered lintels and cut stops, along with 19th-century raised and gabled dormers featuring four-pane sash windows. The rear wing contains timber casement windows with drip stone hoods and a 19th-century door leading to the yard.
Sychnant Cottage, which was originally a three-bay cowhouse, has a doorway with a very heavy frame and a boarded door, adorned with recent cover strips, situated against the house gable, indicating its longhouse origins. There is an added gable stack and a lean-to toilet. At the time of inspection in July 1995, the lower gable stack had not been opened up but was reported to be large, containing an internal oven and a blocked door that leads into the former cowhouse. The parlour features chamfered cross beams.
Local climate
Sychnant 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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