Gilfach-ganol farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 January 1993. Windmill.

Gilfach-ganol farmhouse

WRENN ID
eternal-pillar-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bridgend
Constituency
Aberafan Maesteg MP: Stephen Kinnock (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
5 January 1993
Type
Windmill
Address
Gilfach-ganol farmhouse, Llangynwyd Middle
OS grid reference
SS 848 875
Coordinates
51.57513, -3.66234
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Gilfach-ganol farmhouse is a building constructed from local stone, roughcast and whitewashed, with an asbestos slate roof added in 1996. The front walls of the earlier section are battered at the base. The entrance is now located near the center of the south front, featuring a modified early living room window, and is set within a lean-to open rendered porch with side seats, likely added around 1700. The entrance has timber lintels that are no longer visible and stone sills. The farmhouse includes nine-pane timber windows from the 20th century and a modern stable-type front door. At the rear, there is a new two-storey gabled structure that contains the kitchen and other rooms, with a rubble terraced platform on the downhill side.

Inside, the original living hall has had its original stone flags replaced with stone in 1996. It features two deeply chamfered cross beams with cut stops. The lath and plaster partition that formed the inner room has been removed, leaving mortices on a third cross beam. There is a circular stone stair located behind the stack, along with various small openings in the walls, including a cupboard next to the secondary fireplace that was inserted around 1700 in the inner room. The timber fire lintel remains in place. The roof is a two-bay structure, with principal rafters that are curved at the base and have a single tenoned collar, supporting two tiers of purlins.

Local climate

Gilfach-ganol farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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