Lower Cefn Carnau is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 November 1980. House.

Lower Cefn Carnau

WRENN ID
gentle-storey-summer
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
18 November 1980
Type
House
Address
Lower Cefn Carnau, Llangybi, Pontypool
OS grid reference
ST 362 954
Coordinates
51.65437, -2.92294
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Lower Cefn Carnau is a two-storey house that has been completely rendered and painted, likely over local rubblestone, and features an interlocking concrete tile roof. The building consists of two sections: the original house on the right and an outbuilding that has been incorporated into it on the left, along with a single-storey bakehouse further left.

The main section of the house has two sash windows, probably from the late Victorian period, each with 6 over 6 panes, and a central door located in a modern gabled porch. The eaves appear to have been raised, likely in the early 19th century, and the roof has a moderate pitch with a gable stack on the right. The former outbuilding, now part of the house, features two modern windows above a door and a wider window, and it also seems to have been raised, with a slightly steeper pitched roof and an external stack on the left gable. The bakehouse has a modern window as well. The rear elevation has not been seen.

The 1980 listing noted a chimney with a spiral stair beside it at the right end of the house and mentioned a post and panel partition opposite this with a Tudor-headed doorway. The inner room to the left of this partition, which was previously subdivided, has two subsidiary chimneys. Fox and Raglan also reported the presence of 'Wern-hir stops'.

Local climate

Lower Cefn Carnau receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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