Pentwyn-isaf is a Grade II listed building in the Caerphilly local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 March 1999. Farmhouse.
Pentwyn-isaf
- WRENN ID
- sombre-brass-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Caerphilly
- Constituency
- Newport West and Islwyn MP: Ruth Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1999
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Pentwyn-isaf, Cwmdows, Newbridge
- OS grid reference
- ST 199 971
- Coordinates
- 51.66753, -3.15925
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Pentwyn-isaf is a small farmhouse with an attached barn range. It is constructed of rubble, partially limewashed and partially rendered, and features a steeply pitched machine-tile roof with skylights on the house and a brick ridge stack, while the barn has a corrugated roof. The main section of the farmhouse includes a cross passage that backs onto a fireplace, which is separately roofed. There is a short lower wing at right angles to the front, attached to the cross passage, and a later kitchen cross wing at the rear.
The house has a doorway on the left with a replaced door leading to the cross passage. Adjacent to this is a projecting wing with a stack in the gable end. To the right, there are two windows with hoods that are battered. The barn range on the left features a low double boarded door under a timber lintel, an upper window with a hood, and a lower window that has been altered. There is also a small triangular ventilator in the gable end, and at the rear, there is a window under the eaves with a hood.
Inside, the cross passage has a four-centred arched doorway leading to the hall, which contains an open fireplace with stairs beside it and a post and panel screen. The attached byre was formerly separated from the cross passage by a wooden partition, which has since been rebuilt.
Local climate
Pentwyn-isaf 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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