Brecon Place and Brecon House is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1951. Townhouse.
Brecon Place and Brecon House
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-oriel-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1951
- Type
- Townhouse
- Address
- Brecon Place and Brecon House, Porthmadog
- OS grid reference
- SH 568 386
- Coordinates
- 52.92568, -4.13149
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Brecon Place and Brecon House is a late Georgian, three-bay house with two storeys and a basement. The front features roughcast that is painted white, topped with a slate roof that has bracketed eaves and stone stacks at both ends. The central entrance, accessed by steps, includes a fielded panel door with the top four panels now glazed, and is topped by a radial-glazed overlight. The lower storey has 20-pane hornless sash windows positioned above basement lightwells. A veranda supported by wooden posts features Tudor arches with diamond latticework in the spandrels and a plastered segmental tunnel vault that includes three skylights. The upper storey contains 16-pane hornless sash windows with hood moulds. The rubble stone L-shaped gable end, originally meant to be a dividing wall, has two external stacks.
The rear elevation, which is roughcast and slightly advanced beyond the adjoining Greenways, includes a two-storey wing on the right side that continues as a lower two-storey former coach house. The main house has two 12-pane hornless sash windows in the upper storey and a 20-pane sash window on the lower left. On the right side, there is a half-glazed panel door with an overlight. The two-window rear wing, facing the yard, features 12-pane hornless sash windows in the upper storey and a 20-pane hornless sash window on the lower left. The former coach house retains 12-pane sash windows in the upper storey, while the lower storey has modern windows infilling former wide lintelled openings and a lean-to entrance porch on the right side leading to the rear dwelling, Brecon House. Not inspected.
Local climate
Brecon Place and Brecon House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,490 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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