Barn at Gwern Leyshon Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Caerphilly local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 March 1999. Barn.

Barn at Gwern Leyshon Farm

WRENN ID
seventh-obsidian-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Caerphilly
Constituency
Caerphilly MP: Chris Evans (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
5 March 1999
Type
Barn
Address
Barn at Gwern Leyshon Farm, Llanfedw, Rudry
OS grid reference
ST 236 864
Coordinates
51.57207, -3.10307
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The barn at Gwern Leyshon Farm is a 19th-century structure built from random rubble with larger quoins and a stone-tile roof. It features a lower porch with a hipped roof located to the right of the center, which is faced with hammer-dressed stone and includes a shallow brick arch topped with a sandstone key that displays the date 1836 in a diamond panel. On either side of the porch, there are two pairs of ventilation slits, with added lean-tos behind them. To the left of the porch, there is a stable door and a window, along with a blocked former granary opening beneath the wall plate. The left gable end has external steps that lead to a granary door, which is currently overgrown. The right gable end has later additions attached. The rear of the barn was not accessible during the inspection in July 1998.

Inside, the barn has a five-bay roof supported by machine-sawn trusses, which include tie- and collar-beams. The cart passage retains its original flagged floor. In the dividing wall between the barn and stable, the gable end of an earlier, lower building is visible.

Local climate

Barn at Gwern Leyshon Farm 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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