Pen-y-van including attached range to left is a Grade II listed building in the Caerphilly local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 October 1999. Farmhouse, barn.

Pen-y-van including attached range to left

WRENN ID
wild-vault-juniper
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Caerphilly
Constituency
Newport West and Islwyn MP: Ruth Jones (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
22 October 1999
Type
Farmhouse, barn
Address
Pen-y-van including attached range to left, Pontymister, Risca
OS grid reference
ST 257 898
Coordinates
51.60218, -3.07412
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Pen-y-van is a small farmhouse with an attached barn and byre range. It is constructed from limewashed rubble and features a Welsh slate roof with brick end stacks. The building has a simple two-window facade with a central doorway. The first floor has small 3/3 pane casement windows with stone sills located directly under the eaves. The ground floor windows are larger, though not matching, and have shallow hoods that are not original. There is a boarded door, boulder footings, and a stone bench outside the right front window. The attached range consists of two sections and includes double doors and ventilation slits near the house, along with other openings that have timber lintels. The gable end has a loft opening that has been partly renewed in blockwork. At the rear, the barn unit has a pantiled roof and outshuts to the cottage, which features a small replaced ground floor window and a rooflight.

Local climate

Pen-y-van including attached range to left sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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