Barn and cow house at Ynysmaerdy Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Rhondda Cynon Taf local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 November 2000. Barn, cow house.

Barn and cow house at Ynysmaerdy Farm

WRENN ID
shifting-grate-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taf
Constituency
Pontypridd MP: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
14 November 2000
Type
Barn, cow house
Address
Barn and cow house at Ynysmaerdy Farm, Llanharan, Rhondda Cynon Taff
OS grid reference
ST 032 839
Coordinates
51.54622, -3.39633
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The building at Ynysmaerdy Farm is a U-shaped block located on the north side of the farmhouse, dating from an unspecified period. The western and northern wings served as cow houses, while the taller eastern wing functioned as a barn and stable. It is constructed of whitewashed rubble stone with tooled stone dressings and features a slate roof.

The western wing contains seven segmental-headed doorways, and its gable end has a small-pane window with a blocked loft window above. The northern wing originally had eight doorways, with the doorway to the left of center being wider for cart access, while the doorway immediately to its left has been converted into a window. The doorways at both ends of this wing are taller than the others.

In the eastern wing, the barn includes a wagon bay to the left, which has a segmental-headed door that is partly infilled. There is a single segmental-headed door in the center of this wing. The roughcast gable end features a boarded door to the right beneath a segmental head, along with a boarded door leading to the loft above. The barn has openings with brick jambs that are now boarded up, and the rear gable end has a doorway that has been cut through an earlier block doorway with an elliptical arch. The northern wing has a corrugated iron rear slope and brick jambs for blocked openings.

The building has not been inspected.

Local climate

Barn and cow house at Ynysmaerdy Farm sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 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 92% 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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