Larch Grove is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 11 August 1993. Inn.
Larch Grove
- WRENN ID
- winter-porch-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1993
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Larch Grove, Llandegley, Penybont
- OS grid reference
- SO 144 615
- Coordinates
- 52.24535, -3.25498
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Larch Grove is a long, low building with rear lean-tos that was formerly a roadside inn known as The Drover's Arms. The structure consists of a cottage, stables, cowhouses, and a barn, all under a single roof line. It is two storeys high and features painted rubble stone, some breeze block patching, and blocked openings, topped with a slate roof. Behind the cottage, there is a dairy lean-to made of stone, while other additions are constructed with stud and weatherboards. The building has two brick chimneys. The front porch is made of stone and slate, with an open front and a boarded door fitted with strap hinges. There are various small-paned casement windows dating from the 19th and 20th centuries, along with boarded doors for the stable and cowhouse, and tall double boarded doors leading to the barn.
Inside, the building has exposed plain squared beams and joists, with flagged floors. The main room features a moulded bressumer above a partially-reduced fireplace opening, while a smaller room contains a 19th-century cast-iron fire grate and a panelled alcove cupboard. The rooms above the stables are plastered and were used for accommodation.
Local climate
Larch Grove sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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