Wern-gochlyn Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 February 1998. Farmhouse.
Wern-gochlyn Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- bitter-cupola-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1998
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Wern-gochlyn Farmhouse, Abergavenny, Llantilio Pertholey
- OS grid reference
- SO 336 154
- Coordinates
- 51.83396, -2.96471
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Wern-gochlyn Farmhouse is a two-storey building with an attic, constructed from roughly coursed red sandstone rubble with yellow brick dressings and topped with Welsh slate roofs. It likely had a plastered and painted exterior originally, similar to the nearby Wern-ddu. The main range features a central stair tower that projects from the rear wall, accompanied by a large lateral stack, with lower service wings on either side.
The main elevation consists of four bays, with the entrance located in the second bay from the left. The entrance features a plain door flanked by tripartite sashes, which have a 6 over 6 configuration with 2 over 2 sidelights. The remaining windows are all 6 over 6 sashes, equipped with horns and yellow brick frames. The main wall has been extensively rebuilt, as there are no remaining signs of the original 17th-century window openings. The roof is steeply pitched and includes four modern roof-lights, with end ridge stacks that have paired diamond set flues.
On the left gable end, there are early 20th-century sashes, including those in the kitchen wing, which has a configuration of one and two on the ground and first floors, all 4 over 4 sashes, along with two garret windows in the gable above. The right gable features a 4 over 4 sash on the first floor and a 4-pane casement in the garret.
The rear elevation shows late 20th-century windows in the two projecting wings and the lean-to porch. Above the porch, the three-storey stair tower has a late 20th-century diamond lattice plastic window, along with two small 17th-century openings above, topped with a hipped roof. A fine lateral stack on the left has two diamond set flues.
The interior has undergone alterations, which were noted by Bradney in 1906. The original open-well staircase has been replaced with a smaller framed staircase. The first floor retains remnants of a 'Great Room' featuring three ovolo moulded transverse ceiling beams and a fireplace with an ovolo moulded oak lintel on the rear wall. The roof structure is A-frame with three tiers of staggered purlins.
Local climate
Wern-gochlyn Farmhouse receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% 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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