Cefn Celfi is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 May 1972. House.

Cefn Celfi

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
22 May 1972
Type
House
Address
Cefn Celfi, Rhos, Swansea, Cilybebyll, SA8 3EY
OS grid reference
SN 745 030
Coordinates
51.71172, -3.81764
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Cefn Celfi is a house constructed from whitewashed rubble stone, topped with slate roofs and featuring a small brick stack at the right end. The building has two storeys and a three-window range. The exterior has been completely remodeled, now showcasing 20th-century triple casement windows. The front wall of the hall on the right is slightly stepped forward, with a triple casement on each floor and a shallow gable over the upper window. The center features an entryway in a lean-to porch made of rubble stone, with a triple casement above it. To the left, there is a triple casement on each floor. The right end wall includes one upper window and a half-round projection for a bread oven. The left end wall has a wall pier to the right of a demolished attached byre, with triple casements on each floor. The rear of the house has a pair of casements to the right and a large wing to the left, which includes a square rubble stone chimney on the roof slope, triple casements on both the end wall and the front wall, and a 20th-century rendered lean-to that covers the center door of the main house. The rear wall is windowless and made of rubble.

The interior has not been inspected recently but is said to retain features noted in 1972. The ground floor hall includes a chamfered beam with run-out stops and reeded square joists, along with a large fireplace that has a chamfered timber lintel and a bread oven. A winding stone staircase is accessed through a diagonally-set Tudor-arched doorway located in the corner to the left of the fireplace. The upper floor and roof were renewed prior to 1972.

Local climate

Cefn Celfi 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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