Former Barn at Croespenmaen is a Grade II listed building in the Caerphilly local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 April 1963. House - terrace.
Former Barn at Croespenmaen
- WRENN ID
- peeling-clay-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Caerphilly
- Constituency
- Newport West and Islwyn MP: Ruth Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1963
- Type
- House - terrace
- Address
- Former Barn at Croespenmaen, Crumlin
- OS grid reference
- ST 195 985
- Coordinates
- 51.68037, -3.16477
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The former barn at Croespenmaen is a tall structure built of stone rubble, featuring tooled ashlar dressings. It has a shallow pitched Welsh slate roof at the front and a catslide roof at the rear over a lower outshut. On the centre right, there is a full-height hipped-roof porch with a high round-arched doorway, which includes voussoirs, a keystone, and imposts, with the keystone positioned at eaves level. The arch head is blocked above the impost level, and there are double boarded doors. The sides of the barn have short ventilation slits located below the eaves, as well as dove nesting holes with a ledge beneath. To the left, there is a large boarded loft opening, and on the ground floor, there are two cambered-arched doorways, one of which is partially blocked. An added wing features a long sloping roof and additional openings to the left.
Inside, the barn retains a stone threshing floor. The first floor has an opening to the outshut, which has a divided interior. There are no internal divisions or lofts remaining within the barn, which is currently used as a shop and store.
Local climate
Former Barn at Croespenmaen sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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