Cliff Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 September 1995. Dwelling. 2 related planning applications.
Cliff Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- roaming-corbel-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 8 September 1995
- Type
- Dwelling
- Address
- Cliff Farmhouse, Llancadle, Llancarfan
- OS grid reference
- ST 049 689
- Coordinates
- 51.41163, -3.36842
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Cliff Farmhouse is a two-storey building with a central cell and a two-unit direct entry plan. The exterior features colourwashed elevations and a thatched roof adorned with a decorative ridge. There are two gable end stacks. On the ground floor, there are three modern casement windows placed randomly in the original openings, while the first floor has one two-light casement window beneath an eyebrow.
At the northern end, there is a one-and-a-half storey granary range with a slated roof and limestone rubble elevations. This section includes a modern five-light timber window on the ground floor and a flight of stone steps leading up to the granary door, which now has a modern leaded window. The gable end stack here is made of brick and topped with concrete roof tiles.
To the southern end of the central cell, there is an early 19th-century two-storey range set at right angles. The west gable is slate hung and features a rubble stack. The symmetrical main front facing south is made of exposed rubble and has three 16-pane sash windows with horns on the first floor and two on the ground floor, flanking a central four-panelled door topped with a semi-circular fanlight.
The central hall is accessed from the east elevation and contains an open fire with a timber bressumer and a bake oven on the west jamb, as well as a cross-corner stone stair located to the east of the fire. The hall features three exposed beams with medium chamfers and ogee stops. The second bay on the southern side has an open fire with an oven on the southern jamb and a gable entry stone stair on the southern side. The 19th-century wing at the southern end opens into the central hallway, which has flanking rooms on the east and west sides.
Local climate
Cliff Farmhouse 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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