Upper Trerew Farmhouse (aka Little Trerhiw) is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 October 2000. Farmhouse.

Upper Trerew Farmhouse (aka Little Trerhiw)

WRENN ID
gaunt-column-hyssop
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
27 October 2000
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Upper Trerew Farmhouse (aka Little Trerhiw), Llanvetherine, Abergavenny, Skenfrith
OS grid reference
SO 381 178
Coordinates
51.8555, -2.89962
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a 16th century farmhouse with an addition dating to the 19th century, arranged in a linear layout. The farmhouse is constructed of painted rubble stone with brick dressings and shallow stone sills. The original section has a 20th-century composite slate roof, while the addition has a slate roof with brick end stacks.

The southwest front of the original range is lower than the rest of the building. Ground-floor window openings are arched with brick. A blocked entrance doorway is located off-centre, flanked by a 6-pane casement window to the left and a 9-pane window to the right. A 4-pane window is located on the first floor. The 19th-century addition to the left has skewback lintels with brick voussoirs. The first floor has a 16-pane hornless sash window to the right and a similar style 20th-century window to the left. The ground floor features a 20th-century brick porch with a slate lean-to roof on the right and a 20-pane window to the left. The southeast gable originally had a granary, but the steps no longer survive. A boarded door with a timber lintel leads to the former granary from the first floor. To the right of this is a 5-light mullion window, and a 20th-century glazed door is on the ground floor far to the left.

The entrance to the 19th-century stair lobby leads into the addition. The staircase is of 19th-century design, featuring a closed string, a chamfered newel post with scroll stops and an octagonal cap, and square balusters. A ground-floor room to the left contains a late 19th-century black marble fireplace surround with twin columns and volutes (previously from Maindiff Court). To the right of the stair lobby is an impressive, chamfered, Tudor-arched oak doorway that once formed the broad gable entrance to the 16th-century house. The hall features a massive, chamfered ceiling beam with hollow and fillet ('Wern-hir') stops and joists with roll moulding. A transverse post and panel partition with a Tudor-arched doorway is located at the upper end of the hall, indicating the line of a former axial partition that likely divided the room into a parlour and a small pantry. A further deep chamfered ceiling beam with straight cut stops and chamfered joists with diagonal stops is also present. The fireplace has chamfered monolithic jambs with a massive monolithic lintel, and herringbone stonework to the back-wall of the hearth. A 20th-century staircase is located to the left of the fireplace (the original fireplace staircase no longer exists).

Local climate

Upper Trerew Farmhouse (aka Little Trerhiw) 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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