Gelli-groes Millhouse and attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Caerphilly local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 February 1988. Millhouse and workshop. 2 related planning applications.

Gelli-groes Millhouse and attached Barn

WRENN ID
twelfth-render-poplar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Caerphilly
Constituency
Caerphilly MP: Chris Evans (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 February 1988
Type
Millhouse and workshop
Address
Gelli-groes Millhouse and attached Barn, Pontllanfraith, NP12 2HY
OS grid reference
ST 177 946
Coordinates
51.64503, -3.18978
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Gelli-groes Millhouse and the attached barn is a 2-storey building set at an angle to the road, featuring a 3-window range house in the center, a 2-window range cottage to the right sharing the same ridge, and a single-storey barn range to the left that is now a workshop. The structure is built of roughcast rubble with a Welsh slate roof, and has a red brick end and ridge stack, while the workshop has a corrugated roof.

The central unit has 9-pane horned sash windows on the first floor and 12-pane sash windows on the ground floor, both with cambered heads. There is a central doorway with a 4-panelled door. The cottage unit to the right has replacement casement windows on the upper floor and retains a 6-pane sash window on the ground floor, along with a boarded door to the side. The workshop, made of limewashed rubble, features a low double doorway with a brick relieving arch flanked by additional doorways. The barn is currently used as a candlemaker's workshop.

Local climate

Gelli-groes Millhouse and attached Barn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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