Watford Fach Farmhouse with adjoining former barn is a Grade II listed building in the Caerphilly local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 4 July 1975. Silos, barn.
Watford Fach Farmhouse with adjoining former barn
- WRENN ID
- roaming-alcove-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Caerphilly
- Constituency
- Caerphilly MP: Chris Evans (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1975
- Type
- Silos, barn
- OS grid reference
- ST 148 859
- Coordinates
- 51.56579, -3.23051
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Watford Fach Farmhouse, dating from the 18th century, is a two-storey, three-window house that faces east. The building is rendered and topped with a stone tiled roof, featuring a ridge stack and a stack at the north end. To the right of the center is a gabled porch that contains a 20th-century panelled door. There are two windows to the left of the entrance and one to the right, all of which are two-casement multipane wooden windows with flat heads and raised surrounds. The upper storey has three windows that are not aligned with those below, including a small eight-pane window to the left of the sash and another window to the right that matches those below.
Adjoining the farmhouse on the left is a former barn, which is also rendered but has a slate roof. This single-storey structure features a three-window front, with two top-hung multipane windows and one UPVC window.
At the rear of the farmhouse, there is a large single-storey lean-to that includes a door and a window, as well as a top-hung window on the south side. Further north, there is a gabled range that connects to a former single-storey stable block, which has been converted for accommodation. The rear of the barn has a central door set under a segmental arch made of voussoirs, flanked by 20th-century windows similar to those at the front. Access to the interior was not available at the time of inspection on September 23, 1998.
Local climate
Watford Fach Farmhouse with adjoining former 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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