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

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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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