Old house at Lower Cantal, including attached farm range is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 July 2004. House.

Old house at Lower Cantal, including attached farm range

WRENN ID
fossil-string-alder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
28 July 2004
Type
House
Address
Old house at Lower Cantal, including attached farm range, Llanbister
OS grid reference
SO 148 725
Coordinates
52.34417, -3.25145
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Old House at Lower Cantal, which includes an attached farm range, is a 1½-storey building featuring three windows. The house is constructed of rubble stone walls, with the rear roughcast and the front mostly rebuilt in brick. It has a slate roof that has been partly replaced by iron sheets, along with a brick stack set back from the left end and a fallen brick stack on the right. To the right of center, there is a replaced, boarded-up door, with an enlarged window to its right (which lacks glazing), a narrow window to its left, and a further two-light casement window to the left. Above these, there are three half dormers with two-light windows, except for the right-hand dormer, which is missing glazing and has part of the jamb and adjacent wall fallen. The rear of the house features an added lean-to with 20th-century windows, and the wall has been taken down at the right end.

On the downhill side of the house, there is a timber-framed farm range clad in weatherboarding, with the lower gable end rebuilt in blockwork. The rear of the farm range consists of blockwork below the weatherboarding. Although not inspected, a survey by RCAHM Wales recorded an arched-brace central cruck truss within the structure.

Local climate

Old house at Lower Cantal, including attached farm range sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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