Gelli Galed Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 4 June 1987. Farmhouse.

Gelli Galed Farmhouse

WRENN ID
roaming-gallery-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Constituency
Neath and Swansea East MP: Carolyn Harris (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
4 June 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Gelli Galed Farmhouse, Treforgan, Crynant
OS grid reference
SN 785 051
Coordinates
51.73198, -3.76032
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Gelli Galed Farmhouse is a low two-storey building with a three-window east front. It features low rendered stacks and walls made of rendered and whitewashed rubble stone, which originally had a long slated roof that has mostly collapsed. The farmhouse has recessed two-light casement windows and a porch with a pitched roof. The north gable includes a corbelled chimney above the ground floor. On the south end, there is a projecting cow house cross range with a ventilation slit low in the angle and a collapsed slate roof that was originally supported by A-frame trusses. To the west, there is a 19th-century cartshed. The property is enclosed by rubble stone walls, with a tree-lined approach.

The interior of the main house is not accessible due to the roof collapse over most of the building. However, it is said to include chamfered main beams on the ground floor, with the older parts featuring broach stops. There is an arched "porch" door through the south wall of the hall, flanking the original flue, and the remains of a turning staircase. The floors are stone flagged throughout, with D-frame trusses and large chimney breasts within the gable end walls. A later lean-to extension along the west side contained an 18th-century dairy with stone slab benches.

Local climate

Gelli Galed Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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