Gelli farmhouse and attached farm range is a Grade II listed building in the Caerphilly local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 January 1999. Farmhouse.

Gelli farmhouse and attached farm range

WRENN ID
narrow-gravel-vale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Caerphilly
Constituency
Newport West and Islwyn MP: Ruth Jones (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 January 1999
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Gelli farmhouse and attached farm range, Trinant, Crumlin
OS grid reference
SO 201 004
Coordinates
51.69746, -3.15665
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Gelli farmhouse is a small farmhouse with an attached farm range that steps down on the downhill side. It is constructed of limewashed stone rubble and features a steeply pitched Welsh slate roof that extends to the front, forming a pentice with a single gabled dormer above the house. There is a small brick stack at the right end. The farm range has a corrugated roof at the front but retains stone tiles at the rear, which includes a loft dormer and has battered walls.

The house's front has a 6-pane casement window next to a wide doorway with a timber surround, and a similar window in the dormer. An additional window has been added to the attached farm range, while another opening has been blocked at the front. Originally, the farm range faced in the opposite direction to the house and still has doorways and small windows with timber lintels that face a small barn across the yard. The rear of the house features two windows, one with a hood, and an eaves staircase window, along with a rear cross passage doorway that has a timber lintel.

Inside, there is a baffle entry leading to the fireplace in the first bay, which may have been a former cross passage, of the attached range that has been incorporated into the house as a kitchen. The original ground floor included a large room with deep chamfered cross beams and small stops, and an open fireplace that is now partly blocked. At the other end, there are two small rooms that are stepped up, likely a dairy and pantry, separated by a screen. The former dairy on the left is now part of the main room, while a wooden screen to the right is still present but papered over. The floor is made of flagstones. Steep winding stairs behind a door to the left of the fireplace are made of timber, and a semi-circular well is lit by a small window.

Local climate

Gelli farmhouse and attached farm range 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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