Ty'r Ywen Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 November 2002. Farmhouse.

Ty'r Ywen Farmhouse

WRENN ID
turning-truss-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torfaen
Constituency
Torfaen MP: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
1 November 2002
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Ty'r Ywen Farmhouse, Henllys, Cwmbran, Fairwater
OS grid reference
ST 266 949
Coordinates
51.64822, -3.06178
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Ty'r Ywen Farmhouse is a farmhouse with an attached cowhouse, constructed from stone. The roof is covered with old slates that have a bitumastic coating, while the cowhouse has corrugated sheeting. The house features a larger chimney at the downslope end and a smaller chimney at the upper end. It faces north and has a stair outshut on the left end, which includes a square window set high. There are two windows at ground floor level. The rear of the house has a small square window at the eaves and a later porch.

Adjacent to the farmhouse is a 19th-century two-storey block that has a window on each floor and a lean-to on the gable end. The cowhouse, facing north, has two doorways and a window set at the eaves. At the rear, a former doorway near the house has been converted into a window, and there is a later doorway as well.

Inside, the ground floor features a joist-beam ceiling. The main block of the house consists of two rooms, with the principal room containing a large blocked fireplace and a winding stair to the left. There is also a blocked doorway leading to the cowhouse. The roof structure includes lapped tie-beams.

Local climate

Ty'r Ywen Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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