Blaen Canaid Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Merthyr Tydfil local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 August 1975. Farmhouse.
Blaen Canaid Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- carved-bastion-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Constituency
- Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1975
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Blaen Canaid Farmhouse, Troed-Y-Rhiw
- OS grid reference
- SO 035 046
- Coordinates
- 51.73258, -3.39854
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Blaen Canaid Farmhouse is a two-storey farmhouse built from rubble stone, featuring a close-eaved slate roof and rebuilt stone end stacks. The building has a three-window range that is slightly offset to the left. It includes four-pane sash windows, which are smaller and nearly square on the upper floor, and a central door that has cambered heads, stone voussoirs, and stone sills. The central window was added in 1993 when the front wall was taken down and rebuilt, and all the glazing and the door have been replaced. There is a datestone above the door, dating to 1840, which may have been reused.
At the rear, there is an outshut that has a window on each side of the door and a window on each floor in the end wall of the outshut, all featuring stone voussoirs and similar four-pane sashes. To the right of the farmhouse, at a lower level, is a former cowshed range that was in poor condition as of 2003 and is partly roofless. This range has two doors with stone voussoirs on the left, a broad central entrance that has been enlarged with a concrete lintel and walling above, and another door with stone voussoirs on the right, which has been raised in the 20th century.
The interior was altered in 1993, with the wood staircase by the east end fireplace removed. Some reused stop-chamfered beams can be found in the east room, while chamfered beams are present in the west room. The roof timbers have been renewed. The left end of the cowshed originally had a central feed passage with five massive beams, three of which have been cut off, and one beam leading to a low broad opening at the rear.
Local climate
Blaen Canaid Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% 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 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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