Big House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 April 1989. Farmhouse.

Big House Farmhouse

WRENN ID
tall-spandrel-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Constituency
Gower MP: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
5 April 1989
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Big House Farmhouse, Llanmadoc Village, Llangennith, Llanmadoc and Cheriton
OS grid reference
SS 440 933
Coordinates
51.61708, -4.25437
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Big House Farmhouse is a two-storey late Georgian farmhouse located in the center of Llanmadoc village, overlooking a triangular green. It is set back behind a walled garden, with a former stable yard to the west. The farmhouse features a three-window front elevation, with rendered and white painted stonework walls, a slate roof with a tile ridge, and rendered end stacks capped in three courses of red brickwork. The front windows are 12-pane with hornless sashes and thin glazing bars, and there are stone sills beneath them. Each gable end has a small attic light.

To the left and right of the main house are single-storey extensions that are similarly rendered, painted white, and have slate roofs. There are also irregular rear extensions made of similar materials. The four-window wing to the left has 12-pane sash windows that match those of the main house, while the wing to the right has a steeper roof pitch, a tall narrow brick chimney, and a modern window. The rear fenestration consists entirely of modern windows. A later addition, the porch is also rendered white with a slated roof and features modern windows on the sides and front, but the doorway behind has the shape of a boxed-in fanlight.

The walled stable yard to the west is made of rubble masonry, part rendered, with assorted window openings and boarded doors, topped with corrugated roofs. This stable yard is included for its group value with the house.

Inside, the layout is conventional, based on an original central lobby and staircase. The staircase, which is in the Regency style and not original to the house, has inch square balusters and a plain handrail.

Local climate

Big House Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,490 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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