Biglis Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 May 2002. Farmhouse.

Biglis Farmhouse

WRENN ID
knotted-loft-rowan
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Constituency
Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
3 May 2002
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Biglis Farmhouse, Dinas Powys, Cardiff
OS grid reference
ST 142 698
Coordinates
51.42119, -3.2351
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Biglis Farmhouse is a large farmhouse built of stone rendered with roughcast and topped with a slate roof featuring ridge and end stacks. The building has a rough T-shaped plan, consisting of an older unit with a projecting staircase wing and a longer, later unit that has different ridge and eaves heights. All the glazing is from the 20th century. The farmhouse is two storeys high with an attic.

The rear of the building has an asymmetrical arrangement of windows, including three storeys on the gabled staircase wing. The garden frontage displays a symmetrical arrangement of openings for each unit, with a three-window range for the longer later unit and a two-window range for the higher earlier front unit, which was created using earlier materials.

Inside, the west unit retains a fireplace with a lintel and a ceiling featuring a heavy chamfered and stopped cross beam with reeded joists. There is a former staircase wing that leads to the attic, which has a surviving Tudor-arched wooden door frame. The longer wing includes another open fireplace, although its jambs are currently hidden behind a later stone facing, and one cross beam has ogee stops. The kitchen at the end features a large beam that may have been re-sited.

Local climate

Biglis Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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