Bullhouse (Old Chapel) at West Aberthaw Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 September 2004. Chapel.
Bullhouse (Old Chapel) at West Aberthaw Farm
- WRENN ID
- half-postern-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 3 September 2004
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Bullhouse (Old Chapel) at West Aberthaw Farm, Barry, St. Athan, CF62 4JA
- OS grid reference
- ST 023 668
- Coordinates
- 51.39212, -3.4053
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Bullhouse, also known as the Old Chapel at West Aberthaw Farm, is a building made of roughly coursed local lias limestone rubble with dressed quoins and a Welsh slate roof. It is a two-storey single cell structure with a gabled roof. The entrance is located in the east gable and features a quoined doorway beneath a flat stone lintel. Above the doorway, there is evidence of a blocked window with a segmental head, and further up, indications that the gable has been raised. The south wall shows signs of two blocked windows above a 19th-century doorway. Both the south and north walls have been raised, with the north wall featuring a plain door leading to the hayloft. The west gable end has not been seen.
Inside, the building displays thicker base walling and is divided into two pens. It retains a wooden hayrack and has queen strut roof trusses that are reinforced with iron on the struts.
Local climate
Bullhouse (Old Chapel) at West Aberthaw Farm sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% 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 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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