Longcross Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 1975. Farmhouse.

Longcross Farm

WRENN ID
vast-stronghold-rush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff East MP: Jo Stevens (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 May 1975
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Longcross Farm, Wentloog Level, Trowbridge
OS grid reference
ST 231 791
Coordinates
51.50572, -3.10813
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Longcross Farm is a long farmhouse constructed from lime-rendered stone rubble, topped with a thatched roof and featuring brick stacks at the ends and along the ridge. The building is a single storey with an attic. The original section on the right (west) has three dormers, each with thatched gabled roofs, boarded surrounds, and 12-pane sash windows. There are three larger windows on the ground floor, with a doorway located to the centre right that has a boarded door and an overlight. Additionally, there is a small staircase window situated between the two left windows.

To the left is a later wing that is contiguous with the original unit, marked by a stone pier attached to the front wall. This wing has its own separate door, a sash window, and a flat-roofed extension, which is battered.

The older unit on the right retains a fireplace with a bressumer and an old bread oven, with stone stairs beside it and a large chamfered and stopped cross beam. There is a partition that divides off an inner room to the right, which features a boxed-in beam. The A-frame roof is reported to survive, complete with two rows of purlins.

Local climate

Longcross Farm sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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