Llanvolda Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 March 2001. Farmhouse.

Llanvolda Farmhouse

WRENN ID
slow-ember-tallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 March 2001
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Llanvolda Farmhouse, Hendre, Monmouth, Whitecastle
OS grid reference
SO 456 149
Coordinates
51.83007, -2.79016
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Llanvolda Farmhouse is a 19th-century building with an L-plan layout, featuring a main range that faces east and a short service wing at the rear of the north end. The walls are mostly rendered, likely on sandstone rubble, with the front and rear painted white. The steeply-pitched roof has a front slope covered with red tiles and the rest with blue slate. The chimneys on the lateral and end walls are made of rendered brick.

The main range is probably single-depth and consists of three structural bays. It has an attractive two-and-a-half-storey facade with four windows, which appears to have been re-windowed in the early 19th century. The doorway, located slightly left of center, is sheltered by a geometrically-trellised Regency porch that has a shallow hipped and swept lead-covered roof. On the ground floor, there is a 16-pane sash window to the left of the porch, another 16-pane sash to the right, and a narrower 12-pane sash further to the right. The first-floor windows are all 12-pane sashes, regularly spaced but offset to the right, with only the fourth window aligned vertically with the one below. The roof extends over plastered eaves coving and features three small gabled two-light dormers symmetrically placed along the midpoint of the slope, which enhance the character of the facade. There is also a chimney at the left gable.

The rear wing consists of two structural bays, with the inner bay being two-storeyed and the outer bay one-storeyed, both having outshuts on the north side. The inner bay features a tall gable chimney, while the outer bay has a short corner chimney at the junction with its outshut. At the rear of the main range, there is a wide rear-wall chimney stack, slightly north of center, which tapers to a tall shaft above eaves level. This chimney is enclosed at ground-floor level by a shallow late-19th-century brick lean-to.

Although not inspected, the farmhouse is likely to contain features of historical interest.

Local climate

Llanvolda Farmhouse receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% 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 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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