'New Mansion' at Ruperra Home Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Caerphilly local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 August 1986. Former house.

'New Mansion' at Ruperra Home Farm

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Caerphilly
Constituency
Caerphilly MP: Chris Evans (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
13 August 1986
Type
Former house
Address
'New Mansion' at Ruperra Home Farm, Rudry
OS grid reference
ST 230 863
Coordinates
51.57105, -3.1117
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

'New Mansion' at Ruperra Home Farm is a two-storey former house built with battered rubble-stone walls and a corrugated asbestos-cement roof. The front of the building, which faces a former yard, is located on the south side and has a wall attached to its left side. There is a central cow-house doorway beneath a timber lintel. To the left of this doorway is the shadow of a former gabled cattle shed, which features an inserted doorway with a timber surround and lintel. To the right of the central doorway, there is an added vent strip under a timber lintel, along with another doorway beneath an added concrete lintel further to the right.

The right gable end has an external stack that has been cut down below the apex and is partly corbelled at the first-floor level. There is a small blocked window in a possibly re-used dressed stone surround and lintel located in the upper left. The left gable end features a first-floor stack, which may have originally been supported on corbels, cut down below the apex. To the left of this stack is a two-light solar window with cusped heads, while the lower storey contains blocked windows that once served as service rooms on both the left and right.

The rear wall has a central cow-house doorway that aligns with the front, which is partly blocked with rubble stone and includes an inserted boarded door. To the left of this doorway is a blocked kitchen window with a relieving arch. Above the central doorway, offset to the left, is a boarded loft door under a timber lintel with brick jambs. A blocked solar window is located at the upper right.

The plain four-bay tie-beam roof dates from the 18th century, after the building ceased to function as a dwelling. In the right gable end, there is a segmental-headed kitchen fireplace in the lower storey, which includes an added brick bread oven. In the upper storey, the hall fireplace is offset to the left and is situated under a timber lintel. Part of a loft remains supported by cross beams, and a ledge in the wall indicates that the solar was at a slightly higher level on the left end. In the service rooms below the solar, the blocked windows feature deep splays.

Local climate

'New Mansion' at Ruperra Home 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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