Rookwood is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 1995. House.

Rookwood

WRENN ID
turning-roof-furze
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 January 1995
Type
House
Address
Rookwood, Bronydd, Clyro
OS grid reference
SO 228 452
Coordinates
52.1, -3.12793
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Rookwood is an early 19th-century building that stands two storeys high with a cellar. The exterior is rendered and features a slate roof, with two parallel gabled wings at the rear. There is a rubble stone outbuilding attached to the south end of the property. The front of the house has doors with margin glazing and fluted doorcases located to the right of the centre, as well as in the north gable end. The first floor has twelve-pane sash windows with stone cills, while the windows to the right of the front door are modern tall casements. The building has two brick stacks at the ends and a larger brick ridge stack to the left of centre.

At the rear of the house, there is a courtyard arrangement of outbuildings that includes a barn, stable, and trap house.

Inside, Rookwood features good period details such as boxed beams with bead mouldings, a closed string oak staircase with a turned newel, and fluted doorcases with roundel corner blocks. The fireplace surround in the central room includes an ornate Jacobean over-mantel, which is said to have originated from Canon Frome Court in Herefordshire.

Local climate

Rookwood receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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