Hendre'r-ywydd Uchaf Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 October 1977. Farmhouse.
Hendre'r-ywydd Uchaf Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- patient-alcove-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 6 October 1977
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Hendre'r-ywydd Uchaf Farmhouse, Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans, St. Fagans
- OS grid reference
- ST 114 772
- Coordinates
- 51.48708, -3.27672
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Hendre'r-ywydd Uchaf Farmhouse is a timber-framed single storey house and outbuilding, featuring a common roofline covered with wheat straw thatch. The structure is built over a five bay cruck framework, with the walls panelled in wattle-and-daub and finished with a limewash.
The north-east elevation of the house includes a doorway with a shaped head and two mullioned windows, one with four lights and the other with five lights. The outbuilding is divided into two sections by a cruck-truss, each having its own separate doorway, with the one closest to the house being lower. There are also two window openings in the south-west wall. The outer walls of both the house and outbuilding have some timber-framing that has been partly renewed, and the wood mullioned windows have renewed mullions, along with some shaped door heads. The rear wall of the house features a four-light window and two shuttered openings for the hayloft at the lower end.
The house has had earth floors reinstated according to the description of the donor. The thatched roof, made of wheaten straw, has been renewed and features an underthatch of oak rods supported by riven oak stakes.
Local climate
Hendre'r-ywydd Uchaf Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% 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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