Outbuilding to north of Church Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 September 2004. A C19 Outbuilding. 2 related planning applications.

Outbuilding to north of Church Farmhouse

WRENN ID
other-garret-furze
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Constituency
Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 September 2004
Type
Outbuilding
Address
Outbuilding to north of Church Farmhouse, Porthkerry, Barry, Rhoose
OS grid reference
ST 081 666
Coordinates
51.39188, -3.32116
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The outbuilding located to the north of Church Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed structure built from local limestone rubble, featuring large, carefully laid quoins and a dressed stone doorway. The main elevation faces west and includes a central doorway with dressed and chamfered jambs topped by a 2-centred chamfered arch. There are signs of possible small windows or vents on either side of the doorway, but these are blocked and hard to identify. The building has a moderately pitched roof covered in profiled steel sheeting.

The right gable wall was partially rebuilt in the mid-19th century to include a redbrick chimney for the bakehouse, which rises above the ridge line. The left gable is adjacent to a lower structure, possibly a donkey stable, which features a boarded door and a dressed vent to the right. There is a straight joint between this stable and the barn. A corrugated iron roof leans against the taller back wall. The rear wall of the barn is plain, except for a central window that appears to have been added in the mid-19th century, although the 16th-century kitchen likely had some form of windows.

Inside, the building retains a large stone fireplace, which was adapted when it became the farm bakehouse in the mid-19th century. This fireplace includes a brick-built washing copper that was added around 1930 when the building was converted into a wash-house. The roof structure has mostly been replaced.

Local climate

Outbuilding to north of Church 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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