Barn Range including cow-house at Swffryd-ganol is a Grade II listed building in the Blaenau Gwent local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 November 1999. Barn.

Barn Range including cow-house at Swffryd-ganol

WRENN ID
silent-plinth-river
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Blaenau Gwent
Constituency
Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney MP: Nick Smith (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 November 1999
Type
Barn
Address
Barn Range including cow-house at Swffryd-ganol, Sofrydd, Llanhilleth
OS grid reference
ST 223 993
Coordinates
51.68737, -3.12486
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The building is a barn range that includes a cow-house, located at Swffryd-ganol and designated as Grade II. It is constructed of rubble with a steeply pitched metal-sheeted roof and is built into the slope at the eastern end. The barn faces north and features a later lean-to porch on the right side, which leads to tall barn doors. This porch has a stone-tiled roof and there is also a small later lean-to structure at the angle with the front wall of the barn.

To the left of the porch, there is a boarded door leading into the stable, which has a cambered stone voussoired head. The stable door is flanked by windows, with a 20th-century window on the right and a left window that has a brick head. At the rear left, there is a long single-storey cowshed range consisting of nine bays, topped with a slate roof. This cowshed features four-pane windows and boarded doors, all with cambered brick heads. The arrangement of doors and windows from left to right is: WDWWDWWDW.

Inside, the barn has a collar truss roof made of sawn timbers, and there is a stone dividing wall between the barn and the stable. The stable contains three-bay stalls with chamfered posts and boarded divisions. The cowshed has a kingpost roof supported by angle struts.

Local climate

Barn Range including cow-house at Swffryd-ganol sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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