Flanders Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 September 1982. Monument.
Flanders Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- riven-vault-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 10 September 1982
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Flanders Farmhouse, Llantwit Major, Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen
- OS grid reference
- SS 966 683
- Coordinates
- 51.405, -3.48763
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Flanders Farmhouse is a two-storey building with stone rubble walls covered in pebbledash cladding. It features a Welsh slate gable roof with rebuilt stone stacks at each end and one to the north-east of the passage. The house has a single depth layout with a rear outshut.
The front elevation includes plastic sash windows with glazing bars, which were inserted around 1985. The first-floor windows are smaller and often misaligned with those on the ground floor. The north-east end of the main house wing has a window above and below that are not quite aligned. The third bay features a square-headed doorway with a porch that has iron panelled sides and a flat hood on brackets over an 8-panel door, where the top four panels are glazed. The fourth bay has a window above, while the fifth and sixth bays have two windows above and one in between below. All these windows have been replaced with plastic units since 1982.
To the south-west of the main wing is a recessed wing, also with pebbledash cladding and a stone stack on the south-west gable, topped with a slate gable roof. There is a set-back wing to the north-east with a front lean-to that has cement cladding and two windows. The rear elevation features late 20th-century plastic windows as well. A rear stair wing, likely added in the 18th century, was also noted.
During the resurvey, only the ground floor was accessible. The north-east ground floor room of the main house has stopped and chamfered ceiling beams and an arched door leading to the fireplace stairs, along with an altered stone fireplace featuring an oak lintel. There is a spiral stone stair with a corbelled roof. The interior of the house has undergone significant alterations, obscuring the original plan.
Local climate
Flanders Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% 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 88% 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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