West Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 September 1982. House.

West Farm

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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
House
Address
West Farm, Llantwit Major, Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen
OS grid reference
SS 965 689
Coordinates
51.40967, -3.48896
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

West Farm is a two-storey house dating from the 18th century. It features a five-bay front elevation clad in pebbledash, with painted stone window surrounds and end quoins, as well as a first-floor band. The roof is gabled and covered with Welsh slate, originally having flanking stacks, but now only retains a stone stack, which is partly rendered, on the left-hand or south-west gable end. The house has sash windows with six over six panes, except for the second first-floor window from the left (south-west), which has a round arched head and intersecting tracery. Below this window, there is a round-headed doorway with a fanlight that has radiating bars, leading to a four-panel door with the top two panels being moulded. The entrance is enhanced by a gabled porch supported by wooden posts on low stone walls.

At the rear, there is a one-storey and attic service wing, likely built at the same time, which has modern windows and another stack. The garden elevation has not been seen.

Although the interior was not inspected during the resurvey, it is reported that the south-west end wall of the main wing is made of exposed stone rubble and features a segmentally arched fireplace, likely from the 18th century. The north-east ground floor retains some panelling on the north-west wall, to the left of the fireplace, and there are two six-fielded panel doors in the entrance hall. These interior features have been confirmed by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.

Local climate

West Farm 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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