Church Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 October 1981. Well.

Church Farmhouse

WRENN ID
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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
19 October 1981
Type
Well
Address
Church Farmhouse, Monknash, Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen, St. Donats
OS grid reference
SS 920 706
Coordinates
51.42421, -3.55458
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Church Farmhouse is a two-storey building dating from the 18th century, constructed with local limestone rubble walls that have rendered cladding, painted on the main elevation, and topped with a Welsh slate roof. The structure has a long single-depth range with a continuous rear outshut. The front elevation features five windows and two doors on the ground floor, along with seven windows on the upper floor.

The older south-west wing has a roughly central baffle entry accessed through a porch with pebbledash walls and a modern Gothic door. To the left of the porch, there is a 2-pane casement window and a sash window with 6 over 6 panes, as well as two first-floor sash windows, both with 2 over 2 panes. To the right of the porch, there is a 6 over 6 sash window and a sash window with 2 over 2 panes above. The converted in-line cowshed wing to the right has the same roofline and features a ground floor with a sash window with 6 over 6 panes, a 2-light casement, and a modern half-glazed door, along with three 2-light casements on the first floor. The older left-hand wing has three stacks: one on the gable, one behind the entrance, and one at the division between the original house and the cowshed.

The rear elevation includes a catslide roof over the former cowshed, which slopes down to a low wall with two doors, one likely leading to the dairy. The house section has a continuous outshut with a small 2 over 2 pane sash window above.

Inside, the south-west ground floor room, formerly the Hall and Inner Room, features a north-east middle beam with a deep chamfer and straight stops with fillet, as well as a moulded north-east wall beam that has been reused. The fireplace has a deep chimney breast, an old wood bressumer, and a bread oven, flanked by fireplace stairs with a stone corbelled roof. There is a ledged door from this room leading to the baffle entry vestibule. The kitchen is described as featureless, with a wall broken through to a featureless cowhouse. The upper floor was not seen during the resurvey.

Local climate

Church 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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