Pen Pye Farmhouse (aka Pen-y-pye) is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 October 2000. Farmhouse.

Pen Pye Farmhouse (aka Pen-y-pye)

WRENN ID
weathered-forge-ivory
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 October 2000
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Pen Pye Farmhouse (aka Pen-y-pye), Abergavenny, Grosmont
OS grid reference
SO 393 231
Coordinates
51.90329, -2.88266
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Pen Pye Farmhouse, also known as Pen-y-pye, is a small farmhouse dating from around 1600. It is constructed from whitewashed rubble stone and features a slate roof with stone end stacks, one of which has a brick cap. The building has two storeys. The south front includes a large square stack on the left and a smaller stack on the right, which has a moulded cap and water tabling. The first floor has two casement windows with 2+2 panes, while the ground floor features an entrance doorway with a boarded door. On the north elevation, the ground floor has a 19th-century six-pane horned sash window with a shallow flat timber lintel, alongside a blocked opening with a similar lintel to the right.

To the west gable, there are ruins of a timber-framed building, and to the east gable, there is a single-storey lean-to with a stone tile roof. The farmhouse has a one-unit plan with a gable entry. The 19th-century boarded entrance door faces a Tudor arched doorway leading to the lean-to. Inside, the ground floor features chamfered ceiling beams with hollow and fillet (Wern-hir) stops. There is a fireplace stair with a plank and batten door, as well as a winding stone stair. On the first floor, there is a chamfered fireplace lintel that also has similar stops.

Local climate

Pen Pye Farmhouse (aka Pen-y-pye) receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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